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[[Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]] '''Sir Sydney John Cotton''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCB}} (2 December 1792 – 19 February 1874) was a [[British Army]] officer. He was the commandment of the [[Moreton Bay penal colony]] in Australia.

==Military career==
Born the second son of Henry Calveley Cotton of [[Woodcote]], [[Oxfordshire]], England, and his wife Matilda, daughter and heiress of John Lockwood of Dews Hall, [[Essex]], Cotton joined the British Army in 1810 as a Cornet in the [[22nd Dragoons|22nd Light Dragoons]].

He served in [[India]] from 1810 to 1835.

He served extensively in [[Australia]] (1835 to 1842) including being the commandant of the Moreton Bay penal colony (now the city of [[Brisbane]]) from 1837 to 1839.<ref>{{Citation|author1=Cranfield, Louis R. (Louis Radnor), 1927-|title=Early commandants of Moreton Bay|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38259372|date=1964-01-01|publisher=Royal Historical Society of Queensland|access-date=10 October 2020}}</ref>

He returned to India for further service 1842 to 1863, including service throughout the [[Indian Mutiny of 1857|Indian Mutiny]] of 1857–58.

For his frontier services, Cotton was appointed [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] and after returning to England he became General Officer Commanding [[Northern Command (United Kingdom)|Northern District]] in July 1865.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |title=Army Commands|accessdate=25 November 2015}}</ref> He was promoted to [[lieutenant-General]] in 1866 and, after publishing "''Nine Years on the North-West Frontier of India from 1854 to 1863''" in 1868, he was advanced to [[Order of the Bath|GCB]] in 1872.

He was Governor of the [[Royal Hospital Chelsea]] from 1872 until 1874.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=98501#s2 Survey of London, volume 11, edited by Walter H. Godfrey (editor), Published 1927]</ref>

[[Image:SydneyCottonBrompton01.jpg|thumb|Funerary monument, [[Brompton Cemetery]], [[London]].]]
He is buried in [[Brompton Cemetery]], [[London]].

[[Mount Cotton, Queensland]] is named after him.

==See also==
* Rev. [[Richard Lynch Cotton]] (1794–1880), younger brother
* Sir [[Arthur Thomas Cotton]] (1803–1899), younger brother

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010240b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography]

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