They said
“though the cotton plant, requiring a warm climate, was never a big source of industry in Britain”
A slight difference, I’d say. They’re saying that not much cotton was grown in Britain.
No, they’re not. They are stating as fact their incorrect assumption that because the cotton plant couldn’t actually grow in Britain, Britain never had anything to do with cotton as a product. It may not have been grown here, but it was definitely a big SOURCE of industry: in that the cotton industry wouldn’t have existed without it. Therefore the person who wrote that is clearly ignorant of a major industrial past.
Okie-dokie, Kiddo.
Just stumbled across a reference to this Anglican archbishop: Accepted Frewen - Wikipedia
What about Constable Visit-the-Infidels-with-Pamphlets?
I remember reading in a book about the Salem witch trials that it was kind of a popular thing in the late 17th century to give children unusual first names, hence Increase and Cotton Mather. Probably like in rap music, everyone has a wild nickname.
There was a basketball coach named Lowell Fitzsimmons who was nicknamed “Cotton”, presumably because of his gray hair (wiki doesn’t say but that’s what I remember).
In King of the Hill, Cotton was the name of Hank’s father.
Mentioned in the OP. 
Give 'em a break. The OP was two and a half years ago.
Well, since this thread has degenerated (devolved?) into something about all things named ‘cotton’, I’ll proffer the term ‘cotton mouse’. It’s kind of a ‘trade specific’ term, used by plumbers to describe a clog in a drain pipe.
It referred to a ball of fibers that usually started out life as a woman’s Tampon or panty liners that got flushed.
This was in the days before the invention of the biodegradable/flushable type, I say that because I can’t recall having heard it used in the last 20 or so years. 
I knew someone named “Low.” It was not shortened from anything. Just “Low.”
He went by his middle name instead.
The judge’s friends called him “Stupid Foot”. Washington’s friends called him “Nimrod”.
Do they call me Ludovic the Bridge Builder?
Oddly enough, although the name is now synymous with “doofus” or “loser,” the original Nimrod was something of a badass: Nimrod - Wikipedia
Lrrr (of Omicron Persei 8)
“Hi, Low.”
" 'lo."
I’ve wondered if/assumed that the Bugs Bunny cartoons were the reason that “nimrod” became slang for a loser/idiot, as Bugs occasionally referred to Elmer Fudd as a “nimrod” - making fun of his hunting skills.
Quite possibly. That was more exposure than that name had had in many years, I think.
Just came across a reference in David McCullough’s John Adams to the President’s cousin, Dr. Cotton Tufts!: Cotton Tufts - Wikipedia
When I was a kid and lived in Oklahoma my grandpa had a small farm and his small farmer neighbors’ name was Cotton. He was a cranky old sunovabitch.
First or last name?