Cotton George Edward Lynch

Cotton, George Edward Lynch, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta, was born at Chester in 1813, studied at Westminster School and Cambridge, and held a mastership under Dr. Arnold at Rugby. As headmaster of Marlborough College from 1852 to 1857, he succeeded in materially raising the tone of the school, and in 1858 was appointed to the see of Calcutta, where he worked zealously till his death by drowning in 1866.