Background
He was the son of Sir John Cotton, 2nd Baronet, of Lanwade and Madingley Hall, Cambridgeshire who had been himself Member of Parliament
He was the son of Sir John Cotton, 2nd Baronet, of Lanwade and Madingley Hall, Cambridgeshire who had been himself Member of Parliament
John Hynde was educated at Westminster school and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
The historian Eveline Cruickshanks called him "one of the most zealous Jacobites in England". several times for Cambridge. After an Member of Parliament deserted the Tories and made a speech loyal to Sir Robert Walpole, Cotton criticised him to Walpole, saying “That young dog promised that he would always stand by us.” Sir Robert replied: “I advise my young men never to use always.” “Yet”, said Cotton, stammering, “you yourself are very apt to make use of all ways.”
Horace Walpole wrote that Cotton "had wit and the faithful attendant of wit, ill nature. And was the greatest master of the arts of the House, where he seldom made but short speeches, having a stammering in his elocution, which however he knew how to manage with humour.
In the end of Queen Anne"s reign he was in place.
During Sir Robert Walpole"s administration constantly and warmly in opposition. And was so determined a Jacobite, that though on the late coalition he accepted a place in the household and held it two years, he never gave a vote with the court, which argued nice distinction, not only in taking the oaths to the King (for that all the Jacobites in Parliament do) but in taking his pay and yet obstructing his service: and as nice in the King"s ministers, who could discover the use of making a man accept a salary, without changing his party".
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