[7] Here he joined the Low Church party, and was a close friend of several disciples of Thomas Arnold, including CJ Vaughan and WJ Conybeare.

[8] In 1852 he accepted the appointment of headmaster at Marlborough College, reviving its financial, educational and reputational status.

[citation needed] Cotton married his cousin, Sophia Ann Tomkinson, daughter of Rev.

They had two children; a son, Edward Cotton-Jodrell (later MP for Wirral) and a daughter, Ursula Mary, who also married within the clergy.

On 6 October 1866, he had consecrated a cemetery at Kushtia on the Ganges in the then Bengal Presidency, and was crossing a plank leading from the bank to the steamer when he slipped and fell into the river Gorai.