Sir James Laurence Cotter, 4th Baronet of Rockforest (1828–1902)Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860), George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p. 180: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 was an Anglo-Irish officer, Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff, and Baronet.Burke's Peerage, 61st edition 1899, p. 354
Cotter was the son of Sir James Cotter, 3rd Baronet and Helena Tryndall Lombard, and the grandson of Sir James Cotter the 2nd Baronet. He succeeded his father, the third Baronet, in 1834. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He served in H.M. 27th Regt and was formerly one of Her Majesty's Body Guard.Burke's Peerage, 11th edition 1849, p. 245 He was a captain in the South Cork Light Infantry and the Queen's Own Light infantry. 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.Burke's Peerage, 61st edition 1899, p. 354Complete Baronetage, p.372
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.Burke's Peerage, 77th edition 1915, p. 522
See also Cotter baronets Cotter family James Fitz Edmond Cotter James Cotter the Younger Óttar of Dublin
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