Sir John Hynde Cotton, 4th Baronet (1717 – 23 January 1795), of Madingley Hall,

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the ...

, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain for St Germans 1741 to 1747, for Marlborough 18 February 1752 to 1761 and for

22 March 1764 to 1780. He married the heiress Anne Parsons (daughter of Humphrey Parsons) in 1754. The couple had two sons, Admiral Sir Charles Cotton (5th Baronet) and the Reverend Alexander Cotton.

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