Major-General Sir Amos Godsell Robert Norcott CB KCH (3 August 1777 – 8 January 1838) was an English soldier of the 95th Rifles fought throughout the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo where he commanded a battalion.

[2] He entered the British Army in 1793, joining the 33rd Foot Regiment as a second lieutenant and serving on the staff of his great-uncle, Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore, the Commander-in-Chief of Ireland.

During his time there, he became friends with Arthur Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington), who helped him pay off his gambling debts.

[8] On 13 September 1831, Norcott was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order in a ceremony at St James's Palace.

In 1834, he served as acting Governor of Jamaica before later becoming commander of the Cork District where he died at Marysboro House on 8 January 1838.