Holman Cotton

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Holman "Long Hom" Cotton was a Hobbit of Bywater.

Holman moved to Bywater, and took up the family name "Cotton". He became a farmer, which passed to his son, Tom. He also had another son, Will.^[1]

Holman means "hole-man", and is distinct from the real-life English surname^[2] which contains holm "river island" rather than hol "hole".^[3]

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-An early member of the [[Cotton]] family, and in fact the first to use 'Cotton' as a surname. He came from [[Bywater]] near [[Hobbiton]], and presumably farmed the same land, down South Lane, as his son [[Tolman]] years later. Holman's cousin was his namesake, Holman Greenhand the gardener, whose gardening tradition would eventually passed on to [[Hamfast Gamgee]] and his son, [[Sam]].
+{{hobbit
+| image=
+| name=Holman Cotton
+| othernames=Long Hom
+| birth={{SR|1302}}
+| death=
+| parentage=[[Cotman]]
+| location=[[Bywater]]
+| gender=Male
+| hair=
+|}}
+'''Holman "Long Hom" Cotton''' was a Hobbit of [[Bywater]].
-[[Category:Hobbits]]
+==History==
-[[Category:Cotton]]
+Holman moved to Bywater, and took up the family name "[[Cotton Family|Cotton]]".  He became a farmer, which passed to his son, [[Tolman Cotton Senior|Tom]]. He also had another son, [[Wilcome I Cotton|Will]].<ref>{{App|Gamgee}}</ref>
+==Etymology==
+Holman means "hole-man", and is distinct from the real-life English surname<ref name="Nomen">{{HM|N}}, p. 760</ref> which contains ''holm'' "river island" rather than ''hol'' "hole".<ref>[[Jim Allan]] (ed.), ''[[An Introduction to Elvish]]'', "Giving of Names"</ref>
+{{references}}
+[[Category:Hobbits]][[Category:Cotton]]