General Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton (15 May1803Oxford – 25 July1899Dorking) was a British general and irrigation engineer. May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining. ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Dorking is a market town nestling under the North Downs approximately 25 miles south of London. ... Irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara Irrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. ...
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. The Canal du Midi in Toulouse, France Canals are man-made waterways, usually connecting existing lakes, rivers, or oceans. ... The British Raj is an informal term for the period of British rule of most of the Indian subcontinent, or present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (previously known as Ceylon). ... 1819 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The First Anglo-Burmese War lasted from 1823 to 1826. ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
An evangelist, he was the father of Elizabeth Hope. Lady Hope in 1887 Lady Elizabeth Reid Hope (née Cotton1; December 9, 1842–8 March 1922) was a British evangelist who is generally believed to be the Lady Hope who claimed in 1915 that she had visited the British naturalist Charles Darwin shortly before his death in 1882. ...
Arthur could well be a mythical figure portrayed as historical by the author of the Historia Brittonum in just the same way as Hengest and Horsa were mythical figures portrayed as historical by both Bede and the author of the Historia.
This concept of Arthur occurs in both the very earliest of these sources (earlier than and contemporary with the earliest references to a possibly 'historical Arthur') and, indeed, in the vast majority of the non-Galfridian sources, with these sources consistent in their portrayal of Arthur.
A historical 5th- or 6th-century Arthur is not in anyway necessary to the understanding of the pre-Galfridian Arthur and the evidence we have makes the postulation of such a figure not only unnecessary but also completely unjustifiable.
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