Charles Herbert Cottrell (27 November 1806 – 9 November 1860) was an Englishman who travelled to Siberia in 1840-41, produced an account of the experience, and translated plays and non-fiction works from German to English. At home, he qualified as a barrister and was a magistrate of Hertfordshire and Wiltshire.
Cottrell was born in Monken Hadley on 27 November 1806 to the Reverend Clement Cottrell and Georgiana Cottrell. [1] He received his advanced education at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, from where he received his M.A. [2]
According to John Burke, the Cottrell family had its origins in the French Albigenses. Burke wrote that "Cotterel the Norman" was given land in Derby by King Henry III in 1235. An 1852 gazetteer reported that Charles Herbert Cottrell was descended from Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell, who was master of ceremonies at the end of the seventeenth century, and on the maternal side from Chaloner Chute of Hampshire who was speaker of Cromwell's parliament. [3]
Cottrell qualified as a barrister and was also a magistrate [4] in Hertfordshire and Wiltshire.
He wrote an account of his travels in Siberia in 1840-41 which was published in London in 1842. He was fluent in German and Italian and translated a play by Friedrich Schiller into English as well as a work by the Prussian Egyptologist, Karl Richard Lepsius and Baron von Bunsen's Ägyptens Stelle in der Weltgeschichte (Egypt's Place in Universal History). [4]
Charles Herbert Cottrell succeeded to the Cottrell estate on the death of his uncle, Charles Cottrell of Hadley, in 1829. [2] He probably acquired Hadley Lodge (destroyed by fire 1981) in Monken Hadley at the same time. He is recorded as living there in 1852 [3] and was probably living there at the time of his death. In 1860, Cottrell was named as the chairman of the local board of The Society of Arts for Barnet. [5]
Cottrell died on 9 November 1860. [4] His account of his travels in Siberia was republished in the British Library's Historical Print Editions series in 2011. [6]
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