S. E. Cottam

The Reverend Samuel Elsworth Cottam, M.A. was an English poet and priest.

Cottam was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he was a friend of Edwin Emmanuel Bradford.

He was a lifelong Anglo-Catholic, unlike Bradford who later became a Modernist.

Cottam and Bradford were together Chaplains of St George's Anglican Church in Paris.

He was later incumbent at Wootton, Vale of White Horse, where John Betjeman and W. H. Auden went to see him celebrate Sung Mass.

Cottam published a gay magazine called "Chameleon", which was produced as evidence in the trial of Oscar Wilde.cite web |last=Norton |first=Rictor |url=http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/bradford.htm |chapter=Blessed Are the "Puer" in Heart |title=A History of Homoerotica |year=1998]

Publications

*"A lantern for Lent, brief instructions on biblical subjects for the forty days of Lent" (London: n.p., 1897)
*"The royal thanksgiving, a sermon on the recovery of King Edward VII" (London: n.p., 1902)
*"New sermons for a new century" (London: n.p., 1900)
*'Philosophy of Truth', "The Philosopher" vol. 12 (1934)
*"Cameos of boyhood: and other poems" (London: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1930)
*"Friends of my fancy, and other poems" (Eton; Windsor: Shakespeare Head Press, 1960)

References

ources and further information

*Bevis Hillier, "Young Betjeman" (London: John Murray, 1988), p. 177