Robert Cotton (MP)

Sir Robert Cotton (2 May 1644 17 September 1717) was an English politician. He sat as a Member of Parliament from 1679 to 1701 and briefly in 1702.

Life

He was the third son of Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet, the second by Sir Thomas's second wife Alice. He was granted the manor of Hatley, Cambridgeshire by his half-brother in 1662, the year of his father's death.

He sat as a Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire from 1679 to 1695, for Newport, Isle of Wight from 1695 to 1701 and briefly for Truro in 1702.[1] He was selected as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for Jan–Nov 1688.

A Tory, he was one of the joint holders of the Postmaster General position from 1691 after the dismissal of John Wildman.[2]

References

Parliament of England
Preceded by
Gerard Russell
Edward Partherich
Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire
16791695
With: Sir Levinus Bennet, Bt 16791693
The Lord Cutts 16931695
Succeeded by
The Lord Cutts
Edward Russell
Preceded by
Sir William Stephens
Richard Leveson
Member of Parliament for Newport (Isle of Wight)
16951701
With: The Lord Cutts 1695 & 16981699
Sir Henry Dutton Colt, Bt 16951698
Henry Greenhill 16991701
Succeeded by
The Lord Cutts
Samuel Shepheard
Preceded by
Henry Vincent
Sir William Scawen
Member of Parliament for Truro
1702
With: Henry Vincent
Succeeded by
Henry Vincent
Sir Thomas Powys


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