Professional Life
Cotton practised at Calcutta High Court from 1893 to 1908. He served as a member of Calcutta Municipal Corporation.
He covered the Delhi Durbar of 1903 as a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. He subsequently served as the Kolkata correspondent of the Daily News.
He returned to England in 1906 and enlisted his name in the service of the Liberal Party in various capacities. In 1910 he was elected as a Progressive Councillor to the London County Council representing Finsbury East, a seat which he held until 1919. He became a Liberal Member of Parliament for a short period, winning Finsbury East at a by-election in July 1918. At the general election later that year, he contested the new Finsbury seat for the Liberals but was defeated.
He undertook the editorship of India, the weekly organ of the British Committee of the Indian National Congress.
He served as President of the Bengal Legislative Council from 1922 to 1925.
He was an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission and was chairman from 1923 to 1925.
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