Sir John Cotterell, 4th Baronet

Sir John Richard Geers Cotterell, 4th Baronet (13 July 1866 – 13 November 1937) was an English baronet.

Early life Cotterell was born on 13 July 1866. He was the son of Sir Geers Cotterell, 3rd Baronet and Hon. Katherine Margaret Airey. His father, an MP for Herefordshire, had succeeded to the baronetcy in 1847, upon the death of his brother (John's uncle) John Henry Cotterell. Cotterell served as an Alderman of Herefordshire County Council. In 1930, he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. He was also a renowned breeder of Hereford cattle. he succeeded as the 4th Baronet Cotterell, of Garnons, Herefordshire. Together, they were the parents of four children:

Sylvia Evelyn Cotterell (1896–1944), who married Capt. Christopher Digby Leyland, son of Christopher John Leyland of Haggerston Castle, in 1916. They divorced in 1929 and she married Roland Norris Fawcett later that same year. she married Roden Powlett Graves Orde, son of Roden Horace Powlett Orde, in 1946.

He died on 13 November 1937 at his London home, 10 Hertford Street. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only son, Richard. Garnons, the family seat, was requisitioned during the war years and the family relocated to Byford Court. who became the 6th Baronet in 1978.