University of Cambridge. Much to the surprise of many friends 
and of still more numerous bystanders, Mr Cotterill accepted the 
nomination. That such a step was not calculated to lead to pre- 
ferment at home was obvious enough ; but the father entirely 
sanctioned the proceeding ; and the son never, I believe, for a 
moment regretted it. 
The appointment took him to the Madras Presidency. Before 
leaving England he vacated his fellowship by marriage with Anna, 
daughter of John Panther, Esq. of Bellevue, in Jamaica. By 
this honoured and much-respected lady, who lives to mourn his 
loss, he became the father of four sons and two daughters, of whom 
all, but one daughter, have survived him. 
At Madras he saw much of missionary work among the heathen, 
and acquired an interest in it which never left him. But the 
climate did not suit him, and at the end of eight years’ residence 
his health was seriously affected. In 1847 he returned to England, 
and accepted the position of Vice-Principal of Brighton College, a 
newly founded institution. In 1851 he succeeded to the Principal- 
ship, rendered vacant by the death of its previous occupant, Dr 
Maclean. 
Although this College prospered greatly under his care, there 
were those among his friends who felt that it was not a sphere 
that afforded full scope for his varied powers. One of these, a 
layman, a member of a family deeply interested in missions, walk- 
ing in London, is said to have noticed an advertising board headed 
by the words “Wasted Steam.” The title suggested to this 
gentleman’s mind instances of such loss among men whom he had 
known, and it struck him that Henry Cotterill was at that moment 
an example of such waste. “By the way,” so his thoughts ran 
onward, “ Archbishop Sumner told me that the See of Grahams- 
town had become vacant by the decease of Bishop Armstrong, and 
that a successor was being sought for it. Mr Cotterill would be 
the very man for the place.” Fired by this idea, he at once pro- 
ceeded to Lambeth, and the result was that on November 23rd, 
1856, Henry Cotterill was consecrated and then duly gazetted as 
Lord Bishop of Grahamstown. 
The Bishop of Capetown, Dr Gray, seems at first to have feared 
that he and his new colleague might not work harmoniously. An 
