Sir John Cotterell, 6th Baronet

Sir John Henry Geers Cotterell, 6th Baronet (8 May 1935 – 4 December 2017) was a Hereford businessman and politician.

[1] He was the son of Lt.-Col. Sir Richard Cotterell, 5th Baronet and Lady Lettice Lygon.

He later served in Knightsbridge as part of the Household Cavalry's mounted regiment and attended Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

In 1988, when the Mappa Mundi was under threat, he was appointed chairman of the trustees of the Hereford Cathedral treasure to raise money to construct a new library, negotiating church and heritage politics in order to keep the Mappa Mundi in Hereford.

He served as a steward at Hereford, Cheltenham, Ascot, Ludlow and Wolverhampton and was on the disciplinary committee of the Jockey Club.

Photograph of his mother, Lady Lettice Lygon , 1922
The Hereford Mappa Mundi
The new library at Hereford Cathedral ( right ) where the map is now housed