Robert Cotton (MP, born 1644)

Sir Robert Cotton (2 May 1644 – 17 September 1717) was an English politician.

He was granted the manor of Hatley, Cambridgeshire by his half-brother in 1662, the year of his father's death.

He sat as a Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire from 1679 to 1695, for Newport, Isle of Wight from 1695 to 1701 and briefly for Truro in 1702.

A Tory, he was one of the joint holders of the Postmaster General position from 1691, after the dismissal of John Wildman,[2] until he retired in 1708.

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