Sir James Cotter, 1st Baronet (1714 – 9 June 1770) was an Irish politician and

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Career

Cotter was born into the Norse-Gaelic

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, the son of

James Cotter the Younger James Cotter the Younger ( ir, Séamus Óg Mac Coitir; 4 August 1689 – 7 May 1720), or James Cotter of Anngrove, was the son of Sir James Fitz Edmond Cotter who had commanded King James's Irish Army forces in the Counties of Cork, Limerick, and ...

(1689–1720), a leading Roman Catholic and Jacobite in County Cork, by his marriage to Margaret Mathew.John Burke, ''A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire'', Volume 1 (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832)
p. 292
/ref> After his father's death, he was brought up by guardians as a Protestant and educated at

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, a

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in County Cork. Cotter served as a

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for

Askeaton Askeaton (, Waterfall of Géitine, also historically spelt Askettin), is a town in County Limerick, Ireland. The town on the N69, the road between Limerick and Tralee, is built on the banks of the River Deel some 3 km upstream from the e ...

in the

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between 1761 and 1768. On 11 August 1763 he was created a

, of Rockforest in the County of Cork, in the

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.William Betham, ''The Baronetage of England, Or the History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families'', Volume 5 (Miller, 1805)
p. 54
/ref> In 1746 Cotter married Arabella Rogerson, daughter of Sir John Rogerson,

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, and Elizabeth Ludlow. Arabella was the widow of William Casaubon. Together they had four children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cotter, Sir James, 1st Baronet 1714 births 1770 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland

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Irish MPs 1761–1768 People from County Cork Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Limerick constituencies People educated at Midleton College