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unlooked-for event brought them into thorough concord with each 
other. In the year 1836, that is to say the year after that of 
Mr Cotterill’s Senior Wranglership, the place of Second Wrangler 
had been won by a member of St John’s, who was thereupon 
elected Fellow of that College. His name was Colenso; and after 
having had experience, both in tuition as a mathematical master 
at Harrow, and also in pastoral work as a country vicar, he had 
been selected for the office of Bishop of Natal. Dr Colenso 
published works certainly of a startling character ; and his former 
brother-fellow, the Bishop of Grahamstown, in November 1863, 
formed part of an Episcopal Court which condemned the teaching 
of Bishop Colenso as heretical. This sentence was not confirmed 
by the State, inasmuch as the Privy Council declined to recognise 
the legal validity of the letters-patent granted to Bishop Gray, and 
of his claims to act as Metropolitan. The opinion, however, de- 
livered by Bishop Cotterill was allowed on all sides to be one of 
remarkable clearness and ability. 
In 1867 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Longley, held a 
gathering at Lambeth of the Bishops of the Anglican Communion ; 
and a similar one took place in 1878, under the presidency of 
Archbishop Tait. On both occasions Bishop Cotterill was chosen 
to act, in company with an English prelate, as a general secretary ; 
and also as sole secretary to a committee appointed to consider the 
constitution of the Colonial daughters of the Anglican Church, and 
their relations to the mother Church of England. In these 
situations he enjoyed an opportunity of showing to those around 
him his capacity for business, his judicial temper, and his largeness 
of view. These qualities made a special impression upon some of 
the Bishops who had come from Scotland and from America. 
The acquaintance with his powers thus obtained greatly 
influenced the clerical and lay electors of the Episcopal Church in 
the diocese of Edinburgh, when in 1871 they were seeking for a 
coadjutor to Bishop Terrot. Other candidates withdrew, and on 
April 26th the Bishop of Grahamstown was elected by the vote of 
both the clerical and lay chambers, nernine contradicente , to the 
office of coadjutor Bishop. Bishop Terrot only survived this event 
by about eleven months ; and as Dr Cotterill had been chosen cum 
jure successions, he became full Bishop in April 1872. 
