Arthur Cotton

General Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton (15 May 1803 Oxford – 25 July 1899 Dorking) was a British general and irrigation engineer. Cotton devoted his life to the construction of irrigation and navigation canals through the Empire of India, which was only partially realised. He entereed the Madras Engineers in 1819, and fought in the First Burmese War. Cotton was knighted in 1861.

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The Cauvery River (also spelled Kaveri or Kavery) is one of the great rivers of India and is considered sacred by the Hindus. The headwaters are in the Western Ghats range of Karnataka state, and flows through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and empties into the Bay of Bengal. Its waters have supported irrigated agriculture for centuries, and the Kaveri has been the lifeblood of the ...

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The Lady Hope Story first appears in an American Baptist newspaper the Watchman Examiner on August 15, 1915. The author was identified only as a "consecrated English woman", "Lady Hope", but research by L.G. Pine a former editor of Burke's Peerage found no other Lady Hope other than Elizabeth Hope who was adult in the 1880s and still alive in 1915. The article was preceded by a four-page report on a summer Bible conference held in Northfield ...

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Elizabeth Hope, Elizabeth Hope - Biography, Elizabeth Hope - The Lady Hope Story, Elizabeth Hope - Original text of the article, Elizabeth Hope - Denial by Darwin's children, Elizabeth Hope - Subsequent retellings and academic investigation, Elizabeth Hope - Conclusion, Elizabeth Hope - Footnotes

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Elizabeth Cotton was born in 1842 in Tasmania, Australia, the daughter of a British general, General Sir Arthur Cotton. Aged 35, she married a widower, retired Admiral Sir James Hope, who was 34 years her senior, in 1877 becoming Lady Hope of Carriden. Sir James died just four years later. She and her father were part of the evangelist temperance movement, living in Beckenham Kent about 6 miles from Downe (where Charles Darwin di ...

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Elizabeth Hope, Elizabeth Hope - Biography, Elizabeth Hope - The Lady Hope Story, Elizabeth Hope - Original text of the article, Elizabeth Hope - Denial by Darwin's children, Elizabeth Hope - Subsequent retellings and academic investigation, Elizabeth Hope - Conclusion, Elizabeth Hope - Footnotes

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False stories of deathbed recantations for other people are common. Indeed, in his 1879 biography of his grandfather, Charles Darwin himself recounted how the story had been started that his grandfather Erasmus Darwin had called for Jesus on his deathbed in 1802, and concluded by stating that "Such was the state of Christian feeling in this country at the beginning of the present century... we may at least ...

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Elizabeth Hope, Elizabeth Hope - Biography, Elizabeth Hope - The Lady Hope Story, Elizabeth Hope - Original text of the article, Elizabeth Hope - Denial by Darwin's children, Elizabeth Hope - Subsequent retellings and academic investigation, Elizabeth Hope - Conclusion, Elizabeth Hope - Footnotes

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