Sir John Geers Cotterell, 1st Baronet (21 September 1757 – 26 January 1845) was a British politician.

[1][2] He was the son of Anne Geers and Sir John Brookes-Cotterell, High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1761.

[1] He was created Cotterell Baronet, of Garnons in the County of Hereford, on 2 November 1805 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

[1] Before her death on 3 July 1813, they were the parents of four sons and six daughters, including:[5] Sir John died Garnons on 26 January 1845 was buried in the family vault at Mansel church.

[7] Through his only son John, he was a grandfather of Sir John Cotterell, 2nd Baronet (1830–1847), who died unmarried while at Eton, and Sir Geers Cotterell, 3rd Baronet (1834–1900), who married Hon.