A wealthy cotton-manufacturer; a magnate of the cotton trade.
1823. W. Cobbett, Rur. Rides (1885), I. 399. Oh, Oh! The cotton Lords are tearing!
1847. J. W. Croker, in C. Papers (1884), III. xxv. 102. Helping to raise a gigantic fortune for some cotton lord at Manchester.
1862. T. Guthrie, Pract. Sympathy (1863), 15. Our religion … looks on the soul of the poorest cotton-worker to be as precious as the soul of the wealthiest cotton-lord.
