Sydney Cotton
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Lt-General Sir Sydney John Cotton GCB (1792 - 19 February 1874) was a British army officer.
He was 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.
He served extensively in Australia and India.
For his frontier services Cotton was made KCB and after returning to England he was appointed lieutenant-general in 1866, governor of Chelsea Hospital and GCB in 1872. In 1868 in London he had published "Nine Years on the North-West Frontier of India, from 1854 to 1863".
He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.
Mount Cotton, Queensland is named after him.
