Charles Cecil Cotes
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Cotes as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, October 1883
Charles Cecil Cotes (7 April 1846 – 9 August 1898) was a British Liberal politician.
Cotes entered Parliament for Shrewsbury at the 1874 general election, and held the seat until 1885. When the Liberals came to power in 1880 under William Ewart Gladstone, he was appointed a Junior Lord of the Treasury, which he remained until the government fell in 1885.
Cotes died in August 1898.
References
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Cecil Cotes
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by James Figgins Douglas Straight |
Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury 1874 – 1885 With: Henry Robertson |
Succeeded by James Watson (representation reduced to one member 1885) |
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