Sir James Cotter, 1st Baronet


Sir James Cotter, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician and baronet.
Cotter was born into the Norse-Gaelic Cotter family, the son of James Cotter the Younger, a leading Roman Catholic and Jacobite in County Cork, by his marriage to Margaret Mathew. After his father's death, he was brought up by guardians as a Protestant and educated at Midleton College, a Church of Ireland boarding school in County Cork.
Cotter served as a Member of Parliament for Askeaton in the Irish House of Commons between 1761 and 1768. On 11 August 1763 he was created a baronet, of Rockforest in the County of Cork, in the Baronetage of Ireland.
In 1746 Cotter married Arabella Rogerson, a daughter of John Rogerson, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and Elizabeth Ludlow, widow of William Casaubon. Together they had four children.