Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Combermere

Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet (c. 1635 – 18 December 1712) was an English Whig politician.

His ancestor Sir George Cotton was granted Combermere by Henry VIII in about 1541.

[1] After he was accused of treasonable correspondence with the Electress of Hanover, Sophia, in 1685 he was committed to the Tower of London by the Earl of Sunderland, Secretary of State for the Southern Department.

Historians consider his voting pattern to be proto-"Country", which irked some of the less independent Whigs of his era.

As a result, the family's seat at Combermere Abbey was enhanced with the Llewenni Estate in Denbighshire, northeast Wales.