Cotton College
Cotton College was a Roman Catholic boarding school in Cotton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. It was also known as ''Saint Wilfrid's College''. The school buildings were centred on Cotton Hall, a country house used by religious communities from the 1840s until the school moved there in 1873. The school closed in 1987 and the site is now derelict. The school and its chapel (St Wilfrid's church) are both Grade II listed buildings.Cotton College, Cotton
from British listed buildings, retrieved 22 December 2014

History of the school

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Cotton College - Geograph
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Plaque Outside St Wilfrid's Roman Catholic Church, Archdiocese Of Birmingham
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Boarding Schools In Staffordshire
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Defunct Christian Universities And Colleges
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Defunct Universities And Colleges In England
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Listed Buildings In Cotton, Staffordshire
Cotton is a civil parish in the district of Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, England. It contains twelve listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected heritage assets. It includes details of all English listed buildings, scheduled monuments, register of historic parks and gardens, protected shipwrecks, an .... All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The parish contains the village of Cotton, and is otherwise mainly rural. The listed buildings consist of a college, two churches, farmhouses, a cottage and associated farm buildings, four mileposts, and a war memorial. __NOTOC__ Buildings References Citations Sources * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cotton, Staffordshire Lists of listed buildings in Staffor ...
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Thomas Williams (Archbishop Of Birmingham)
Thomas Cuthbert Leighton Williams (20 March 1877 – 1 April 1946) was an English clergyman who served in the Roman Catholic Church as the Archbishop of Birmingham from 1929 to 1946. He was born in Handsworth, Birmingham on 20 March 1877 to James Anthony and Emma Mary (née Leighton) Williams. He was educated at St Wilfrid's College, Cotton and St Mary's College, Oscott. He was ordained to the priesthood on 24 August 1900. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1903 and a Master of Arts degree in 1909. Pastoral career Between 1905 and 1909, he was Assistant Master at St Wilfrid's College, Cotton and Assistant Master at St Edmund's College, Ware. He was appointed the Master of St Edmund's House, Cambridge from 1909 to 1918. During the First World War, he also served in the Royal Army Chaplains' Department (RACD) and was mentioned in despatches. After the war, he was the Principal of St Charles's House, Oxford (1920–22) and Rector of St Wilfrid's College, Cotton (1922 ...
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Camille Solon
Camille Antoine Arnoux Solon (1877–1960) was a British muralist and ceramist of French descent. He was born in Staffordshire, England to French parents, and emigrated to the US, where he worked with architect Julia Morgan doing painting and tile work in the private libraries and indoor pools of William Randolph Hearst's mansions and estates at San Simeon, California. Early life Camille A. Solon was one of nine children born to Marie Antoinette Laure Arnoux and Louis Marc Solon. He was born on 27 March 1877 in Stoke-on-Trent, the centre of England's pottery industry. His mother was the daughter of Léon Arnoux, art director of Mintons Limited. His father had joined the same firm in 1870 and became the preeminent master of ''pâte-sur-pâte'' technique of porcelain decoration. In 1887, at the age of ten, Solon enrolled at Cotton College, a boarding school in a rural part of Staffordshire. He stayed there till 1892.. ''The Cottonian'' (accessed via www.cottoncollege.co.uk) He l ...
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Billy Kan
Billy Albert Kan Che-kin (born 1951/52) is a Hong Kong billionaire who is the chairman and chief executive officer of China LNG Group Limited (formerly Artel Solutions). He was educated at Cotton College and graduated with a BSc in Mathematics from the University of East Anglia. A former executive at Deloitte and KPMG, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of East Anglia in 2016. Kan is married with two children and lives in Hong Kong. References

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John Cornwell (writer)
John Cornwell FRSL (born 21 May 1940) is a British journalist, author, and academic. Since 1990 he has directed the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was also, until 2017, Founder and Director of the Rustat Conferences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (University of Leicester) in 2011. He was nominated for the PEN/Ackerley Prize for best UK memoir 2007 (''Seminary Boy'') and shortlisted Specialist Journalist of the Year (science, medicine in ''Sunday Times Magazine''), British Press Awards 2006. He won the Scientific and Medical Network Book of the Year Award for '' Hitler's Scientists'', 2005; and received the Independent Television Authority-Tablet Award for contributions to religious journalism (1994). In 1982 he won the Gold Dagger Award Non-Fiction (1982) for ''Earth to Earth''. He is best known for his investigative journalism; memoir; and his work in public unders ...
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Kieran Conry
Kieran Thomas Conry (born 1 February 1951) is a Roman Catholic bishop. He was the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton from 2001 until his resignation in 2014. Early life and ordination Conry was born in Coventry and educated at All Souls Roman Catholic Primary School, Coventry, and Cotton College (Junior Seminary) in North Staffordshire, before moving to the Venerable English College in Rome to study for the priesthood. He attended the Pontifical Gregorian University, gaining the qualifications PhB and STB. He was ordained in 1975 at All Souls Church in Coventry by Archbishop George Patrick Dwyer of Birmingham. In 1976, Conry returned to Cotton College to teach English literature and religious education. In 1980 he became the private secretary to the Apostolic Delegate (Pro-Nuncio from 1982), Archbishop Bruno Heim, and then his successor, Archbishop Luigi Barbarito. He was appointed a monsignor in 1984. Pastoral ministry In 1988, Conry returned to the Archdiocese of Birmingha ...
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David Cashman
David John Cashman (1912–1971) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton from 1965 to 1971.Diocese of Arundel and Brighton
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Early life and ministry

Born in on 27 December 1912, he was educated at , and the