{{Short description|British Army officer (1929–1993)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Henry Egerton Cotton | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|JP|DL}} | image = Henry Egerton Cotton Statue.jpg | image_size = 220px | office = 1st Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University | term_start = 1992 | term_end = 1993 | 1blankname1 = Vice-Chancellor | 1namedata1 = Peter Toyne | predecessor = | successor = John Moores, Jr | office2 = Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside | term_start2 = 5 June 1989 | term_end2 = 1993 | predecessor2 = Sir Kenneth Stoddart | successor2 = Sir Alan William Waterworth | caption = Statue of Henry E. Cotton | birth_date = {{birth date|1929|07|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = 1993 | party = | spouse = Elizabeth Margaret Susan Peard <br />(m. 18 June 1955) | children = 1 daughter, 1 son | relations = Colonel Vere Egerton Cotton (father)<br /> Elfreda Helen Moore <br />(mother) | alma_mater = Magdalene College, <br />University of Cambridge | occupation = | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Henry Egerton Cotton''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|JP|DL}} (21 July 1929 – 1993),<ref>{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p24702.htm |title=Henry Egerton Cotton|publisher=Thepeerage.com |date=November 9, 2007 |accessdate=2012-06-20}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=February 2013}}<!--Lundy is not a reliable source so cite Lundy's reliable source See WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT--></ref> (also known as '''Henry E. Cotton''') served as Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside<ref>{{cite web|url=http://merseysidelieutenancy.weebly.com/history.html |title=History - The Merseyside Lieutenancy |publisher=Merseysidelieutenancy.weebly.com |date= |accessdate=2012-06-20}}</ref> from 1989 to 1993. He was also the First Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, serving in office from 1992 until his death in 1993.
==Personal life== Henry Cotton was the son of Colonel Vere Egerton Cotton and his wife Elfreda (née Moore). On 18 June 1955, he married Elizabeth Peard, daughter of Clifford James Peard, DSO, JP.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p24702.htm#i247019 |title=Person Page 24702 |publisher=Thepeerage.com |date= |accessdate=2012-06-20}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=February 2013}}<!--Lundy is not a reliable source so cite Lundy's reliable source See WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT--></ref> They had one daughter, Catherine and one son, Timothy.
===Education=== He was educated at Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire, and later graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1952 with a B.A. degree. Henry Cotton was also in the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) where he gained the rank of Lieutenant.
==University Chancellery== In 1992, Henry Cotton was appointed the First Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University after it gained university status from being a polytechnic. The institution however goes as far back as 1823 to its foundation as the Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts, entitling it to make a claim in the third-oldest university in England debate. He served in office until his death in 1993. He was succeeded by John Moores, Jr, CBE who was the son of Sir John Moores after whom the university is named.
A statue of Henry Cotton inscribed "''Henry Egerton Cotton Esq, (1929-1993) LL.D, JP, First Chancellor of the University, 1992-1993''" has been erected outside the Henry Cotton Building named in his honour, on the university's City Campus in Liverpool.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/PRS/58594.htm| title=Henry Cotton Building| author=Hilary Ellis| publisher=Liverpool John Moores University| date=July 30, 2011| accessdate=October 17, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019130721/http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/PRS/58594.htm| archive-date=October 19, 2013| url-status=dead}}</ref>
==External links== *[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/henry-e-cotton-esq-first-chancellor-of-liverpool-john-moores-university-1992-65543 Portrait of Henry Cotton as Chancellor]
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cotton, Henry Egerton}} Category:Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Category:People associated with Liverpool John Moores University Category:People educated at Rugby School Category:Royal Artillery officers Category:Lord-lieutenants of Merseyside Category:1929 births Category:1993 deaths