John Hynde Cotton 1686-1752

Sir John Hynde COTTON 3rd bart 1686-1752

John Hynde Cotton's Bookplate (Pembroke College Locked section E.3.41)

Biographical Note

Of Madingley Hall, Cambridgeshire. Great-grandson of Sir Robert Cotton. Educated at Westminster School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. House of Commons in 1708-1722. He was a Jacobite Tory, known for his emphatic support of the Jacobite cause.

Books

Bookplate found in Pembroke College Locked section E.3.41, "Designs, and Estimates, of Farm Houses &c." by Daniel Garret.

Characteristic Markings

Cotton's armorial bookplate features the motto "Fidelitas Vincet".

Sources

• Glickman, Gabriel, "The Career of Sir John Hynde Cotton (1686-1752)," The Historical Journal , Dec., 2003, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Dec., 2003), pp. 817-841.
• Hayton, D. W. "Cotton, Sir John Hynde, third baronet (bap. 1686, d. 1752), politician and Jacobite sympathizer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• Information from Emerson Richards-Hoppe.