Georgina Louisa Cotter Cox

Family/Spouse: ? Meadmore. ? was born in cir 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Rufford Cotter Meadmore was born in 1934; died in 1987.

? + Georgina Sarah Annie Coghlan. Georgina (daughter of Hunter Alexander Coghlan and Georgina Purcell Cotter) was born on 14 Apr 1865; was christened on 30 Apr 1865 in Trinmlgherry, Madras, India. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Hunter Alexander Colan
• Occupation: From 1859 to 1880; Army surgeon

Notes:

Hunter Coghlan was a surgeon in the army from 1859-1880 and retired as a Brigade Surgeon. After the death of his wife, he changed his surname to Colan. Family tradition holds that he and his brother, Thomas (a surgeon in the Royal Navy who retired as Inspector General), were tired of the British mispronouncing their name.

Hunter married Georgina Purcell Cotter on 24 May 1864 in Donoughmore, Cork, Ireland. Georgina (daughter of Joseph Rogerson Cotter and Mary Susannah Purcell) was born in 1835; died on 15 Apr 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William + unknown. unknown was born in cir 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: clergyman

Notes:

Joseph Rogerson Cotter, B.A., served as Rector of Donoughmore, Senior Prebendary of Cloyne, and Rural Dean.

Joseph married Mary Susannah Purcell on 5 Aug 1819. Mary (daughter of George Purcell and unknown) died on 15 Apr 1851. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: St. Peter's College, Cambridge, England
• Education: Westminster School, London, England

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.

George married Margaret Rogers on 4 Nov 1775 in St. Finbarr's, Cork, Ireland. Margaret (daughter of Bayly Rogers and Martha Pigott) died on 11 Feb 1832 in (probably) Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George + unknown. unknown died in cir 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sir James Cotter attended Dublin College, and was at the Middleton School in 1729. He was created a Baronet on 30 April 1763. He represented the borough of Askeyton in the Irish Parliament.

James married Arabella Rogerson in 1746. Arabella (daughter of John Rogerson and Elizabeth Ludlow) died on 18 Mar 1793 in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland; was buried in Carrigtwohill, Cork, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bayly Rogers was a doctor. His will was probated in Cork, Ireland, in 1786.

Bayly married Martha Pigott in 1750 in Diocese of Cork and Ross, Ireland. Martha (daughter of Emanuel Pigott and Judith Warburton) was born in cir 1730. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]