Geers Cotterell Explained

Sir Geers Cotterell
Office:Member of Parliament
for Herefordshire
Term Start:4 April 1857
Term End:2 May 1859
Alongside:James King King
Montagu Graham
Thomas William Booker-Blakemore
Predecessor:James King King, Charles Bateman-Hanbury, Thomas William Booker-Blakemore
Successor:James King King
Humphrey Francis St John-Mildmay
Montagu Graham
Birth Name:Geers Henry Cotterell
Death Place:Hertford Street, Mayfair
Education:Harrow School
Nationality:British
Party:Whig
Parents:John Henry Cotterell
Pyne Jesse Trevor

Sir Geers Henry Cotterell, 3rd Baronet (22 August 1834 – 17 March 1900)[1] was a Whig politician.[2] [3]

Early life

Cotterell was the second son of Sir John Henry Cotterell (who had died before his birth and was heir apparent to Sir John Cotterell, 1st Baronet) and Hon. Pyne Jesse Trevor, daughter of Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre and Pyne Crosbie. After his father's death, his mother married Granville Harcourt Vernon, MP, son of Most Rev. Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt and Lady Anne Leveson-Gower, in 1845.

He was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford, and succeeded to the Baronetage of Garnons on 17 February 1847, upon the death of his brother John Henry Cotterell.[3] [4]

Career

Cotterell was elected Whig MP for Herefordshire at the 1857 general election and held the seat until 1859, when he stood down.[3] [5]

Outside of politics, Cotterell was High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1863, as well as a Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the Peace for the same county.[3]

Personal life

He married in 1865 Honorable Katherine Margaret Airey, daughter of Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey, and Harriet Mary Evard Talbot. The Hon. Lady Cotterell died in 1896. They had at least three children:

Cotterell died in Hertford Street, Mayfair, on 17 March 1900 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, John.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rayment . Leigh . The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "H" . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page . 4 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180804141700/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons2.htm. 4 August 2018 . usurped . 13 October 2017 .
  2. News: Election Intelligence . 4 August 2018 . The Examiner . 14 March 1857 . 8–10 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
  3. Web site: Lundy . Darryl . Sir Geers Henry Cotterell, 3rd Bt. . The Peerage . 4 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180804145932/http://www.thepeerage.com/p7370.htm . 4 August 2018 . 2 August 2018.
  4. Web site: Rayment . Leigh . Cotterell of Garnns, Hereford . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page . 4 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180804150554/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsC4.htm. 4 August 2018 . usurped . 23 May 2018 .
  5. Book: Craig. F. W. S.. F. W. S. Craig. British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885. 1977. Macmillan Press. London. 978-1-349-02349-3. 1st. 396.
  6. Obituary . 19 March 1900 . 11 . 36093.