Francis Cottington, first Baron Cottington

(1579 c.-1652)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cottington, Francis Cottington, Baron, 1579?-1652 NRA: Cottington Francis (1578-1652) 1st Baron Cottington diplomat DNB: Cottington, Francis, first Baron Cottington (1579?–1652), diplomat and politician LBT ID: LdCotti1 VIAF ID: 20493045 LOC ID: no2009155148	B/BAP: 1579 DIED: 1652-06-19
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Royalist politician who was chancellor of the exchequer (1629-41); he spent his later years exiled in Spain.
REFERENCES TO Francis Cottington, first Baron Cottington: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 2 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III