Charles Herbert Cottrell

Burke wrote that "Cotterel the Norman" was given land in Derby by King Henry III in 1235.

An 1852 gazetteer reported that Charles Herbert Cottrell was descended from Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell, who was master of ceremonies at the end of the seventeenth century, and on the maternal side from Chaloner Chute of Hampshire who was speaker of Cromwell's parliament.

He was fluent in German and Italian and translated a play by Friedrich Schiller into English as well as a work by the Prussian Egyptologist, Karl Richard Lepsius and Baron von Bunsen's Ägyptens Stelle in der Weltgeschichte (Egypt's Place in Universal History).

In 1860, Cottrell was named as the chairman of the local board of The Society of Arts for Barnet.

[4] His account of his travels in Siberia was republished in the British Library's Historical Print Editions series in 2011.