# William Cotton

> English inventor, merchant and Governor of the Bank of England

**Wikidata**: [Q2578329](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2578329)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cotton_(banker))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/william-cotton-q2578329


## References

1. The Peerage
2. The London Gazette 19586
3. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
4. Cotton, William (5)