Richard Lynch Cotton

Richard Lynch Cotton (14 August 1794 – 8 December 1880) was a British vicar and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.

[3] He was educated at Charterhouse School and Worcester College, Oxford, where he attained a BA degree in 1815.

While Provost at Worcester, Cotton also became Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University in 1852.

Cotton was Vicar of Denchworth, north of Wantage in Berkshire, from 1823 to 1838.

[5] On 25 June 1839, he married Charlotte Bouverie Pusey, daughter of Hon.