Sir James Laurence Cotter, 4th Baronet of Rockforest (1828–1902)[1] was an Anglo-Irish officer, Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff, and Baronet.

He served in H.M. 27th Regt and was formerly one of Her Majesty's Body Guard.

He was Justice of the Peace in county Cork, a Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets and in 1882 he was appointed to the office of High Sheriff of County Cork.

[4][5] He married, firstly, Julia Emily Loinsworth, and had issue Sir Ludlow Cotter, Knt., who died unmarried and without issue, and James Lombard Cotter, a Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment.

The Baronetcy thus passed to James Lombard Cotter's first son, James Laurence Cotter, who succeeded his grandfather, the 4th Baronet, as the fifth Baronet in 1902.