Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell (10 August 1654 – 9 July 1710), was an English courtier.

Biography

Cotterell, the eldest son of Sir

Charles Cotterell Sir Charles Cotterell (7 April 1615 – 7 June 1701), was an English courtier and translator knighted in 1644, after his appointment as master of ceremonies to the court of King Charles I in 1641, a post he held until the execution of Charles ...

, was educated at

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, where he took the degree of LL.D.; was incorporated D.C.L. of Oxford on 4 June 1708. Cotterell succeeded to his father's position as

Master of the Ceremonies The office of Master of the Ceremonies was established by King James VI and I. The Master's duties were to receive foreign dignitaries and present them to the monarch at court. Below is a list of known holders until the replacement of the office ...

in 1686. He was knighted on 18 February 1687. He was commissioner of the privy seal in April 1697; obtained the reversion of his mastership of the ceremonies for his son on 31 January 1699. He was robbed on

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on his way to Windsor on 4 June 1706, and died in July 1710.

Works

On the death of

Prince George of Denmark Prince George of Denmark ( da, Jørgen; 2 April 165328 October 1708) was the husband of Anne, Queen of Great Britain. He was the consort of the British monarch from Anne's accession on 8 March 1702 until his death in 1708. The marriage of Georg ...

in 1708, Cotterell published a "Whole Life" of that prince as a chapbook. A copy is in the Grenville Library at the British Museum.

Family

Cotterell married (1) Eliza, daughter of Nicholas Burwell of Gray's Inn, and (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Chaloner Chute. His eldest son by his first marriage Clement Cotterell (1686–1758) followed in his grandfather and fathers footsteps and became master of the ceremonies on his father's death.

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* Attribution * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cotterell, Charles Lodowick 1654 births 1710 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English courtiers Cotterell family Court of James II of England Court of Anne, Queen of Great Britain