Charles Cecil Cotes

"a Liberal Whip"
Cotes as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, October 1883

Charles Cecil Cotes (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

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Cecil Cotes

Parliament of the United Kingdom
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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Name	Cotes, Charles Cecil
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Date of birth	1846
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Date of death	9 August 1898
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