Information AboutBishop Cotton |
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He was appointed Bishop of Calcutta , an office he fulfilled zealously from 1858 where he did missionary work and established schools for Eurasian children. In requests to England he asked for donations of clothing, often emphasizing "warm socks" for the children. In fact he seems to have held the simplistic view that if the children had warm socks many of their problems, mal-nutrition, disease, racial prejudice etc. could be easily solved. Little old maiden ladies all over England spent their time knitting socks for Bishop Cotton and sending them off to India. He blessed all items used in his schools, and many shipments would arrive labeled " Socks for Cotton's blessing" and reportedly even "Cotton's socks for blessing". Cotton's socks easily became corrupted to cotton socks. He drowned in the Ganges . The famous Bishop Cotton Schools in Bangalore and Shimla have also been founded bearing his name. Bless his cotton socks. |
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