OSWELL

William Cotton (elder son of Wm. Oswell of Shrews bury). b. Ley ton stone, E ex 27 April 1818; educ. Rugby and Haileybury; served in Madras civil service 1837–47, ordered to South Africa for his health, where he spent two years hunting and exploring; discovered Lake Ngami with Dr. Living stone 1849, and the Zambesi 1851; the Knabaõba or straight-horned rhinoceros was named Oswellii after Oswell; returned to England 1853; served as a volunteer, in the trenches and hospitals, during war in the Crimea; carried secret service money from lord Raglan to sir Lintorn Simmons at Shumla; resided at Groom bridge, Kent 1860 to death; contributed four chapters on South Africa to C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting 1894. d. Hillside, Groom bridge 1 May 1893. C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting (1894) memoir vol. i 28–34; Mac mill an’s Mag. Aug. 1894 pp. 307–12; Daily Graphic 9 May 1893 p. 14 portrait .