Robert Cotton Mather

The son of James Mather, a congregational minister, he was born at New Windsor, Manchester, on 8 November 1808, and educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow universities, and Homerton College.

After his ordination at Lendal Chapel, York, on 1 June 1833, he went to India as an agent of the London Missionary Society.

At the time of his death, which took place at Torrington Park, Finchley, London, on 21 April 1877, he was engaged on a commentary on the Old Testament in the same language.

[1] Cotton revised and edited the entire Bible in Hindustani, and in recognition of this work the University of Glasgow conferred on him the degree of LL.D.

[1] Mather's wife Elizabeth, née Sewell, had been a church member of Hew Court Chapel, Carey Street, London.