Charles Cecil Cotes

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Charles Cecil Cotes (1846-9 August 1898), was a British Liberal politician.

Cotes entered Parliament for Shrewsbury in 1868, a seat he held until 1885. When the Liberal came to power in 1880 under William Gladstone, he was appointed a Junior Lord of the Treasury, which he remained until the government fell in 1885.

Cotes died in August 1898.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
James Figgins
Douglas Straight
Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury
with Henry Robertson

1874–1885
Succeeded by
James Watson
(representation reduced to one member 1885)
Political offices
Preceded by
Rowland Winn
Sir James Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone
Viscount Crichton
Junior Lord of the Treasury
with Sir Arthur Hayter 1880–1882
John Holms 1880–1882
Herbert Gladstone 1881–1885
Robert Duff 1882–1885

1880–1885
Succeeded by
Charles Dalrymple
Sidney Herbert
William Walrond