Sir Ignatius Cottonbottom

Sylvester describes Ignatius Cottonbottom, here called Lord Ignatius, as his former employer, the now late head of the British Museum, whose son is Sylvester's arch-nemesis Fletcher Cottonbottom MM E1·00:32:05. Sylvester says he began his career as Ignatius's personal physician MM E1·00:32:05. Sylvester also says Ignatius faked his own death with tinctures from America, so that all England believed he had risen from the dead at the hands of the occult MM E1·00:32:05. Madame Lucretia says that Ignatius cursed England by opening a sarcophagus, and that the stars have returned to the pattern of that moment MM E1·01:03:22.

Sir Ignatius Cottonbottom is the late father of Fletcher Cottonbottom and Sylvester's former employer as head of the British Museum, who Sylvester says faked his own death with tinctures MM E1·00:32:05. Madame Lucretia says he cursed England by opening a sarcophagus MM E1·01:03:22. In MM_04 Brennan tells Gangie that Sir Ignatius was knighted by the king and was a benefactor of the British Museum, and that with the sarcophagus of the Pharaoh Salamander V he tried the "insurance fraud of the century", foiled only by young Sylvester Cross in his first caper MM E4·00:05:08.

The threatening letter signed with Sylvester's name that Catherine McCabbage reads in MM_07 says "The good Sir Ignatius paid the price" MM E7·01:33:56. In MM_09 the blood scrawled around the ritual chamber says "I slew Ignatius Cottonbottom and captured his soul" MM E9·01:39:59. In MM_10 Constance says her father and Sir Ignatius were good friends MM E10·00:50:09.