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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. & Rosanne Walker updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000328b.htm person Cotton John AACR2 1802 15 December 1849 Place of Birth Balham Hill, Surrey, England Place of Death Port Phillip district, Victoria, Australia Naturalist Pastoralist Ornithologist John Cotton arrived in Port Phillip in 1843 and took up a station on the Goulburn River. He continued his study of birds, begun in England, and published his results in the Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science (1848)

Born Balham Hill, Clapham Common, London, 1802. Died 15 December 1849. Educated University of Oxford (law). Legal firm, England; arrived Australia 1843; Doogallook station, Goulburn Valley 1843; added Maintoongoon station, Delatite River 1844; had published books on song birds in Great Britain and continued his ornithological studies in Victoria, publishing his results as a list of Victorian birds in the Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science in 1848. He was made a Fellow, Royal Zoological Society for his work on birds. His planned book on the birds of Port Phillip, illustrated with coloured plates from his own drawings, was produced in 1974 by Allan McEvey (q.v.), as John Cotton's Birds of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales, 1843-1849.

He had five sons and five daughters, all of the girls marrying ornithologists. Marian married Charles Ryan in 1847 and their two children were Major-General Sir Charles Ryan (q.v.) and Mrs Ellis Rowan (qv), flower painter; in 1846 Charlotte married Peter Snodgrass, a pastoralist and Victorian Member of Parliament 1851-67; in 1853 Caroline married Albert A.C. Le Souëf (qv), director of the Melbourne Zoo, and among their children were three distinguished zoologists: W.H. Dudley, Ernest A. and Albert Sherbourne Le Souëf (qqv). Eliza exhibited ten sketches at the 1856 Victorian Exhibition of Art.

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 'Cotton, John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Cotton, John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: John Cotton, 1802-1849 Browne, Janet John Cotton, 1802-1849 Oxford Oxford University Press 2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Book Section: Cotton, John (1802-1849), pastoralist and naturalist Cotton, John (1802-1849), pastoralist and naturalist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1966 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 1: 1788 - 1850 A-H Douglas Pike 249-250 Book: The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Robin, Libby The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2001 John Cotton - Records National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection John Cotton - Records G052 1830 - 1852 Microfilm of: 30 letters from William Cotton to Robert Hudson, William Borradale and J. Cotton; 6 letters from J. Cotton to R. Hudson and William Scholey; 4 letters from Edward Cotton to R. Hudson; all letters deal with family matters and conditions in Port Phillip 1840-52; 'Journal of a tour down the Rhine' by J. Cotton 1830 [2 reels, G052]. 2 reels Microform John Cotton - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales John Cotton - Records FM 4/1690-1 1840 - 1849 Microfilm of drawings and notes on birds, Goulburn River 1840s [2 reels, FM 4/1690-1691]. 2 reels Microform