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Frederick Conyers Cotton
Major General Frederick Conyers Cotton (30 July 1807 – 12 October 1901) was a British army officer who was posted in the Madras Presidency. He was among the first to introduce forestry practices into southern India. He collected wild plants in southern India and the genus ''Cottonia'' was named after him. Life and work Cotton was the son of Henry Calveley Cotton and Matilda Lockwood. He was born in Southstoke, Oxfordshire. His siblings included Arthur Cotton and Sydney Cotton. He joined the Madras Infantry in 1825. On sick leave he went to the Cape of Good Hope and travelled around southern Africa in Kuruman where he met Robert Moffatt. In 1838 he travelled to Norway, Russia and America. In southern India, he initially worked in the public works department. He served in China during the First Opium War 1841–42 and was made a brevet major on the recommendation of his commanding officer Sir Hugh Gough. He became a full major in 1847 and on returning to India he was put in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
F C Cotton
F, or f, is the sixth Letter (alphabet), letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''ef'' (pronounced ), and the plural is ''efs''. History The origin of 'F' is the History of the alphabet#Semitic alphabet, Semitic letter ''Waw (letter), waw'' that represented a sound like or . Graphically it originally probably depicted either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph such as List of Egyptian hieroglyphs by common name: M-Z#M, that which represented the word ''mace'' (transliterated as ḥ(dj)): T3 The Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician form of the letter was adopted into Greek as a vowel, ''upsilon'' (which resembled its descendant 'Y' but was also the ancestor of the Roman letters 'U', 'V', and 'W'); and, with another form, as a consonant, ''digamma'', which indicated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
