Robert Cotton (MP, born 1644)
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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
[edit]He was the third son of Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet, the second son 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] until he retired in 1708.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "COTTON, Sir Robert I (1644-1717), of Hatley St. George, Cambs". The History of Parliament. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ^ The House of Commons 1690-1715, Volume 2, edited by David Hayton, Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley, pp. 744-5.
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