Family
Willoughby Cotton was born in 1783, to Admiral Rowland Cotton and Elizabeth Aston. They also had a daughter, Sydney Arabella Cotton. Rowland Cotton was from a well-established Chester family, while Elizabeth was the only daughter of Sir Willoughby Aston, 5th Baronet Aston, of Aston, Chester.
Cotton married Lady Augusta Maria Coventry on 16 May 1806 in Marylebone, London. They had three children together, Augusta Mary Cotton, Willoughby Cotton and Maj.-Gen. Corbet Cotton.
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