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.

For other MPs of this name, see Robert Cotton (disambiguation).

Family and friends liked to call him Pips, Wilton and Boozy. Fried chickens as a young man. Believed to be an early lover of the first hot tub/spa.

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
  1. "COTTON, Sir Robert I (1644-1717), of Hatley St. George, Cambs". The History of Parliament. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  2. The House of Commons 1690-1715, Volume 2, edited by David Hayton, Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley, pp. 744-5.


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