cotton-lord

These were, in the old days, ranked with slaves, many of whom were merchants and tradesmen; and they labor yet in some countries under the social ban of courts, no British merchant or cotton-lord, though the master of millions, being presentable at Buckingham Palace, itself the product of the counting-room and the loom.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

But Mr. Webster defied the would-be cotton-lord, saying: "I am a Whig -- a Faneuil Hall Whig -- and if any one undertakes to turn me out of that communion, let him see to it who gets out first."

Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853