His father was a master at Rugby School and, from 1852, headmaster of Marlborough College until appointed Bishop of Calcutta in 1858.

[2] The young Edward Cotton was consequently educated at Rugby and Marlborough College before entering the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

In accordance with a covenant of the will, on 10 July 1890, he assumed the surname and arms of Jodrell by Royal Licence and became known as Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell.

[6][14] Cotton-Jodrell had residences in Cheshire in the Tomkinson family home at Reaseheath near Nantwich,[15] but also at Yeardsley and at Shallcross.

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