Land - 1911 - J.L. Cotter - Grazing and agricultural, 2722 acres - Kinangop - 4/5/10 - Leasehold under Occupation Licence for 2 to 99 years from 1/8/10 - Registered 26/6/11

Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - Intelligence Department - To be Lieutenant - J.N. [sic] Cotter, late Lieutenant Royal Irish Regiment

Gazette - 11/8/1915 - Appt. - Intelligence Department - Resignation - Lieut. John Luis Cotter

Medals - East African Intelligence Department - J.L. Cottar, Second Lieutenant

Red Book 1912 - J.L. Cotter - Naivasha

Gazette - 14 Sept 1917 - Military Cross - For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an attack. Although wounded in the head, he continued to lead his men until he could go no further. For many days previous to the attack he had spared no effort in training his company for the operation which owed its success very largely to his energy and keenness.

Gazette 15/6/1912 - General Retail Liquor Licence issued to J.L. Cotter (transferred to C.G. Porter) Naivasha Jan-Jun 1912

Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - J.L. Cotter - Married - Naivasha

Red 25 - Major L.J. Cotter, Kinangop, Naivasha, Honorary Permit Issuer.

Red 31 - Capt. J.L. Cotter, Rumuruti.

Hut - 1925 Soldier Settler, Kampi ya Simba, Friesian/Boran cattle

Gazette 23 Feb 1937 probate

Gazette 15 Jan 1907 gun licence

EAS 5 Feb 1937 For many years before the war he rode the country from the northern frontier to southern Tanganyika, his love of travel combined with his keen business sense combining to making one of the most successful cattle dealers in those early days. The outbreak of war found found him residing in the Naivasha district and it was probably because of his wide knowledge of the territory that he was immediately commissioned in the intelligence department. In 1915 the urge to take a greater part in the war led to his resigning his post locally and he went to England and joined up with the 3rd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles. He fought throughout the war and at its conclusion returned to Kenya. He settled first in the Kinangop and later in Rumuruti and was again mostly interested in livestock. With the constitutional progress of the colony he was persuaded to take a greater interest in its welfare and to enter politics in which he had always taken a keen interest. After a short contest he defeated Captain EV Kenealy in the 1931 election for the constituency then known as West Kenya. When the constituencies were reshuffled and this constituency became known as Aberdare, in the ensuing election he fought against three opponents and was unseated by EH Wright. He was a delegate to Convention from his district and an enthusiastic supporter of the recently formed New Colonial Farmers Association. He was in many respect a last ditcher. He had the colonial point of view deeply ingrained and although he belonged to the left in Kenya politics his vigorous, determined and unrelenting attitude had a great influence in bringing the right answer to the centre.. Cotter was closely identified with the devaluation movement and was always a very strong, and shrewd critic of financial and administrative policy. His direct approach to a problem and his uncompromising attitude in debate always assisted in restoring a discussion to reality. He served on many committees, commissions and public bodies associated with the development of agriculture and particularly those connected with animal industry in which his very practical and long experience of stock raising in Kenya was invaluable. The colony has lost through his death a fine type of settler of sturdy independence of outlook who belonged perhaps rather to the past with its strong convictions than to the present but who because of that very fact helped in giving to colonialisation in Kenya the imperial importance which it has since attained.