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Recorded December 8, 2022. Thomas Bryant Cotton (born May 13, 1977) is an American politician, attorney, and former Army officer serving as the junior United States senator from Arkansas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015.
Sir Robert Cotton was born on 22 January 1571 in Denton, Huntingdonshire, the son and heir of Thomas Cotton (1544–1592) of Conington (son of Thomas Cotton of Conington, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1547 [ 2]) by his first wife, Elizabeth Shirley, a daughter of Francis Shirley of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire.
Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet, of Connington. A painting of Thomas Cotton by Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen. Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet, of Conington (1594 – 13 May 1662) was an English politician and heir to the Cottonian Library .
Thomas Cotton may refer to: Thomas Cotton (MP for Huntingdonshire) (died 1574), MP for Huntingdonshire. Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet, of Connington (1594–1662), English politician. Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet, of Combermere (c. 1672–1715), English peer. Thomas Cotton (dissenting minister) (1653–1730), English minister.
The Cotton Baronetcy, of Landwade in the County of Cambridge, was created in the Baronetage of England on 14 July 1641 for John Cotton. [2] The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Cambridge. The third Baronet represented Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and Marlborough in the House of Commons. The fourth Baronet was Member of Parliament for ...
General Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton KCSI (15 May 1803 – 24 July 1899) was a British army officer and irrigation engineer who worked in the Madras Presidency . Cotton devoted his life to the construction of irrigation and navigation canals throughout British India. He helped many people by building the Dowleswaram Barrage ( Rajahmundry ), the ...
Knight Bachelor. 1988. Sir Thomas Henry Cotton, MBE (28 January 1907 – 22 December 1987) was an English professional golfer. He won the Open Championship in 1934, 1937 and 1948, becoming the leading British player of his generation. [ 1 ] The Rookie of the Year award in European Tour is named after him.
Thomas Highs (1718–1803), of Leigh, Lancashire, was a reed-maker [1] [2] and manufacturer of cotton carding and spinning engines in the 1780s, during the Industrial Revolution. He is known for claiming patents on a spinning jenny (invented by James Hargreaves ), a carding machine and the throstle [ 3 ] (a machine for the continuous twisting ...