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Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton (c. 1715 – 14 August 1775) was a British politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Denbighshire from 1749 to 1774.
He was the son of Sir Thomas Cotton and his wife Philadelphia Lynch. He was the brother of the 3rd Baronet, Robert Salisbury Cotton who predeceased him without issue. He married a distant cousin, Elizabeth Abigail Cotton.
In December 1749 he was elected unopposed as Knight of the Shire for Denbigh, replacing Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn.
In 1769, he built St Mary's and St Michael's Church, Burleydam, near his family seat of Combermere Abbey in Cheshire.
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