Nathaniel Cotton - I8029 - Individual Information

Nathaniel Cotton ‎(I8029)‎

Surname: Cotton
Given Names: Nathaniel

Gender: Male Male

Birth: London, England
Death: 2 August 1788 ‎(Age 82)‎ St Albans, Hertfordshire, England

Personal Facts and Details

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Birth	London, England
Christening	12 March 1706 Bull Lane Independent Chapel, Stepney, London
Marriage	Anne Pembroke - about 1738 ‎(Age 31)‎
Globally unique Identifier	E17732AB73F68F42A3B9526C0A70A145E980
Marriage	Hannah Everett - 22 August 1751 ‎(Age 45)‎
Death	2 August 1788 ‎(Age 82)‎ St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Burial	St Peter, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Last Change	13 April 2008 - 08:19:37

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Parents Family (F2521)
Father	Samuel Cotton -
Mother	Mary ‎(unknown)‎ -
Sister	Mary Cotton 1701 -
Brother	John Cotton 1703 -
Brother	Joseph Cotton 1704 -
	Nathaniel Cotton 1706 - 1788

Immediate Family (F2512)
Wife	Anne Pembroke - 1749
Son	Joshua Cotton 1739 -
Daughter	Mary Cotton 1740 -
Daughter	Anne Cotton 1742 - 1800
Son	Rev. Nathaniel Cotton 1741/42 - 1813
Daughter	Maria Cotton 1744 -
Daughter	Henrietta Cotton 1744 -
Son	Joseph Cotton 1745 - 1825
Daughter	Phoebe Cotton 1747 -
Daughter	Katherine Cotton 1748 - 1780
Son	John Cotton 1752 -
Daughter	Hannah Cotton 1753 -
Daughter	Elizabeth Cotton 1754 -

Immediate Family (F2520)
Wife	Hannah Everett - 1772
Son	John Cotton -
Daughter	Elizabeth Cotton -
Daughter	‎(unknown)‎ Cotton -

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Cotton, Nathaniel ‎(1705-1788)‎, poet and physician, was born in London to Samuel Cotton, a Levant merchant. No record of his birth survives, although a Nathaniel Cotton, son of Samuel and Mary Cotton, was baptized on 12 March 1706 in Bull Lane Independent Chapel, Stepney.

Cotton trained as a physician in Leiden, under Hermann Boerhaave. He matriculated as a medical student on 23 September 1729, and graduated MD on 7 August 1730.

About 1738 Cotton married Anne Pembroke ‎(d. 1749)‎. They had seven children, five of whom survived infancy, including Joseph Cotton ‎(1745-1825)‎. About 1740 Cotton's practice moved to St Albans, where he kept a private madhouse called the Collegium insanorum on Dagnall Street near the abbey, and lived with his family on St Peter's Street. One of his patients at the Collegium was the poet William Cowper.

After his wife's death in 1749, on 22 August 1751 Cotton married Hannah Everett ‎(d. 1772)‎, and with her had a son, John, and two daughters, Elizabeth and an infant.

Following his second wife's death in 1772 Cotton remained a widower. He died at St Albans on 2 August 1788, and was buried with his wives in St Peter's churchyard, St Albans.

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