page_title: Clement Cottrell-Dormer
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Clement Cottrell-Dormer / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of England parish church of St Leonard &amp; St James, Rousham, Oxfordshire: monument to Sir Clement Cottrell-Dormer, died 1758
context_page_description: Sir Clement Cottrell-Dormer was an English courtier and antiquary.
context_section_description: Cottrell was born in Westminster, Middlesex, England on 2 April 1686. He was the son of Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell (1654–1710), and his first wife  Eliza, daughter of Nicholas Burwell of Gray's Inn.
  On his father's death Cottrell became Master of the Ceremonies. The office of Master of the Ceremonies at the British court had been established by James I of England in 1603. The Master's duties were to receive foreign dignitaries and present them to the monarch at court. Sir Clement held that office from 1710 until 1758, during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I and King George II.
  He was also vice-president of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1734 he was described by Hearne as "a scholar and an antiquary, and well skill'd in matters of proceeding and ceremony".
  On the death of his cousin, General James Dormer in 1741, Cottrell inherited the Rousham estates and assumed the additional surname of Dormer by a private Act of Parliament.
  Cottrell died in Rousham, Oxfordshire, England on 13 October 1758.
caption: Church monument in Rousham erected to Clement Cottrell-Dormer, heir to James Dormer who added Dormer to his surname
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