Charles Cecil Cotes

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

      Charles Cecil Cotes (7 April 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.

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      Parliament of the United Kingdom
      Preceded by
      James Figgins
      Douglas Straight
      Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury
      18741885
      With: Henry Robertson
      Succeeded by
      James Watson
      (representation reduced to one member 1885)


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