Cotton, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH, D.D., bishop, born in 1813, was educated at Westminster and Cambridge, and from 1836 to 1852 was a master at Rugby under Arnold and Tait; in Tom
Brown's School Days he appears as 'the young master.' For six years he was at the head of Marlborough College, which he raised to a position among the first schools of England. In 1558 he was consecrated Bishop of Calcutta, where he successfully administered his immense diocese, and where his schools for the children of the poorer Anglo-Indians and Eurasians are monuments of the services he rendered to education. He was drowned in the Ganges, 6th October 1866.