Major General Nicholas Jeremy Cottam, CB, OBE (born 17 February 1951) is a retired senior British Army officer who served as Military Secretary and thereafter Registrar of St Paul's Cathedral.
[7] Cottam became Director of Personnel Services for the Army in 2001,[8] and went on to be General Officer Commanding 5th Infantry Division in 2003.
[9] In that role he increased the retirement age for officers in the Territorial Army to 60,[10] and carried out a review of the reserves, recommending that they be used for augmentation as much as for maximum effort.
[12] In this position he returned to global prominence during the 2011–2012 Occupy London protests outside the cathedral buildings.
He led the public response of the cathedral community to the protests, and made public statements on the resignations of three members of the cathedral's clergy,[13] including the Revd Canon Dr Giles Fraser; Cottam was reported to have been angered by Fraser's decision not to support agreed policy and to resign his position.