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Cotton

Current Housemaster: Tim Hare
Housemaster from Sep 2008:    Mark Conlen
Resident House Tutor:     James Hobby


Cotton is a mixed House, with ten boys in each year group and five girls in both of the Upper School year groups, making sixty in all. In the basement is the dining room where students eat breakfast every morning and dine four evenings per week.

Five minutes' walk from Court, Cotton is named after Bishop George Cotton (1852-1858), the Second Master of the College, who was eaten by a crocodile in the Ganges. Built in 1875, it retains much of the original wood panelling of the time but with extensive modernisation.

Tim Hare was a Resident Tutor in Cotton for six years prior to being appointed as Housemaster in September 2004. He has coached rugby and cricket and enjoyed touring with the 1st XV to Australia and Argentina in recent years. He enjoys golf, skiing and the vineyards of Bordeaux.

Tim is married to Heidi, a local GP, and they have three young sons: Tom, Charlie and Freddie.