Rev. George Sackville Cotter

1755 - 1831  (76 years)

• Name	George Sackville Cotter
  Title	Rev.
  Birth	1755	Belfast, Ulster, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Education	St. Peter's College, Cambridge, England
  Education	Westminster School, London, England
  Death	3 Apr 1831	Youghal, County Cork, Ireland
  		Death Notice of Rev. George Sackville Cotter The Freeman's Journal (Dublin, Ireland) 12 April 1831
  Burial	St. Mary's Cemetery, Carrigtwohill, Cork, Ireland
  Siblings	4 brothers
  1. James Laurence Cotter, 2nd Baronet of Rockforest,   b. 1748   d. 9 Feb 1829  (Age 81 years) ▻ Anne Kearney;   Isabella Hingston   2. Edmond Cotter,   b. 1749   d. 1770  (Age 21 years)   3. Rogerson Cotter,   b. 1752, Rockforest, Mallow, County Cork, Ireland d. 19 Feb 1830  (Age 78 years) ▻ Jane Harrold,  m. 4 Sep 1794   4. Rev. George Sackville Cotter,   b. 1755, Belfast, Ulster, Ireland d. 3 Apr 1831, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland  (Age 76 years) ▻ Margaret Rogers,  m. 4 Nov 1775
  Notes	From: The Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee; Vol. IV. London: Oxford University Press, 1964. "Cotter, George Sackville (1755-1831), poet and translator, was the fourth son of Sir James Cotter. He was educated at Westminster School, of which he was captain in 1770, and in 1771 he was elected to St. Peter's College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1775 and M.A. in 1779. Having taken holy orders he became vicar of Kilmacdonough, and rector of Kilcreddan-Garrivoe and Ightermorragh, diocese of Cloyne. In 1788 he published two volumes of 'Poems,' dedicated to Lady Shannon, and consisting of a poem in two books, entitled 'Prospects,' and a collection of odes and other fugitive pieces. In 1826 he published a translation of Terence for the use of the schools, in the preface to which he states that when at Westminster School he had been an actor in three of Terence's comedies. In the following year he printed seven of the plays of Plautus, 'translated literally and grammatically, and cleared of objectionable passages.' The later years of his life were spent at Youghal, Cork, and he died in 1831. By his wife, a daughter of Bayly Rogers, physician and banker of Cork, he left, with other issue, four sons." George Sackville Cotter was named after Lord George Sackville, a friend of his father's, and was known as "a great musician." His translations of the comedies of Plautus was "Plauti Comoediae septem selectae; Anglice redditae, expurgatae." The comedies are Aulularia, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercator, Pseudolus, Trinummus, and Rudens. The book was published by J. F. Dove, London, in 1827. The poems dedicated to Lady Shannon were published by William Flynn, Cork, in 1788. The full title is "Poems, consisting of odes, songs, pastorals, satyrs, &c, and a descriptive poem in four books, called Prospects." His translations of the comedies of Terence was "Four Comedies of Terence, translated, and the stage management and mode of acting them set down, as they were acted at Westminster School; and also the other two comedies of Terence, the Heautotimorumenos and the Hecyra..." It was published by Dodges and M'Arthur, Dublin, in 1824. George Cotter also wrote "An Essay on the Best Mode of Extension of Agriculture in Ireland, by the breaking up and cultivating lay or grasslands." It was printed by A. Edwards, Cork, in 1802. It was originally published in "Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 1801." Grorge Cotter is listed in "A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors" by A. Austin Allibone, published by J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, in 1858, and in "The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary" by David J. O'Donoghue, published by the author, London, in 1892-3.
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  Last Modified	4 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Sir James Cotter, 1st Baronet of Rockforest,   b. 1714   d. 9 Jun 1770, Rockforest, Mallow, County Cork, Ireland (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Arabella Rogerson   d. 18 Mar 1793, Mallow, County Cork, Ireland
  Marriage	1746
  Family ID	F466	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rev. George Sackville Cotter,   b. 1755, Belfast, Ulster, Ireland d. 3 Apr 1831, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	4 Nov 1775	St. Finbarr's, Cork, Ireland
  Children	1. Elizabeth Cotter,   b. cir 1775   d. 16 Dec 1834 (Age 59 years)   2. Arabella Sackville Cotter,   b. 1782, Castlemartyr, County Cork, Ireland d. 11 Jun 1845, Tabernacle Row, Shoreditch, London, England (Age 63 years)   3. Rev. James Laurence Cotter,   b. 1783   d. 24 Sep 1850, Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland (Age 67 years)   4. George Sackville Cotter,   b. 1 Jul 1783, County Cork, Ireland d. 10 Apr 1869, Port Maitland, Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada (Age 85 years)   5. Dr. Rogers Cotter,   b. cir 1786, County West Meathe, Ireland d. 1847, Ontario, Canada (Age 61 years)   6. Margaret Cotter,   b. cir 1787   7. Louisa Cotter,   b. cir 1789   d. Bef 1865 (Age 75 years)   8. Rev. Joseph Rogerson Cotter,   b. 2 Sep 1790, Cork, Ireland d. 4 Feb 1868, Macroom, County Cork, Ireland (Age 77 years)   9. Sophia Cotter,   b. cir 1791   10. Anne Laurence Cotter,   b. cir 1793   d. 12 Dec 1857 (Age 64 years)   11. Isabella Cotter,   b. 1795, County Cork, Ireland d. 26 Nov 1875, Dunn Township, Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F465	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2023

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1755 - Belfast, Ulster, Ireland Marriage - 4 Nov 1775 - St. Finbarr's, Cork, Ireland Death - 3 Apr 1831 - Youghal, County Cork, Ireland Burial - - St. Mary's Cemetery, Carrigtwohill, Cork, Ireland  = Link to Google Earth
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• Documents » Slide Show	8 Documents
  	George Sackville Cotter Poems The Lady Shannon to whom this book is dedicated was probably Catherine Ponsonby, daughter of John Ponsonby, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. In 1763, she married Richard Boyle, son of Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon. Richard succeeded to the title as 2nd Earl of Shannon upon the death of his father in 1764.
  	Cotter Poem Review.pdf
  	George Sackville Cotter at Westminster School
  	George Sackville Cotter clerical record
  	George Sackville Cotter clerical record.pdf From: Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, W. Maziere Brady
  	Newspaper reference to death of George Sackville Cotter From the Waterford Mail
  	Newspaper reference to death of George Sackville Cotter From the Waterford Chronicle
  	Newspaper reference to death of George Sackville Cotter From the Freeman's Journal

  
  

  Histories

  Cotter Manuscript Manuscript 711 from the National Library of Ireland This manuscript, which relates the history of the Cotter family over several generations, may be the manuscript referred to by G. de P. Cotter, Sc.D. (Dublin) in his edited version of a Cotter family history written by Rev. Charles Purcell Cotter. The main source of information for Rev. Cotter's work was a "manuscript book partly in Irish and partly in English, which was, at the time of his writing the history, in the possession of Sir James L. Cotter, fourth Baronet, of Rockforest". G. de P. Cotter goes on to say that "the present whereabouts of the manuscript alluded to by Mr. C.P. Cotter as 'Family MS.' is unknown to me. Some years ago I was told by the late William Cotter Stubbs, Barrister-at-Law, Dublin (son of the late Rev. J.W. Stubbs, F.T.C.D., Trinity College, Dublin, who married Catharine Louisa, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Rogerson Cotter, formerly Rector of Donoughmore, Co. Cork...)that, when Rockforest was sold by the late Sir J.L. cotter, fifth Baronet, in 1916, the library and furniture were auctioned off. Amongst the books sold was, he said, one MS. book, partly in Irish and partly in English, which was bought by a gentleman whose name I never ascertained, but who held some Government appointment in Dublin."

  
  

  Books

  George Sackville Cotter's translation of Plautus

  
  

  Newspaper Articles

  Married Announcement of the marriage record of George Sackville Cotter and Margaret Rogers from the Finns Leinster Journal, 15 November 1775, Page 2