Nicholas Cottam

Major-General Nicholas Jeremy Cottam CB OBE (born 1951) was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary.

Military career
Cottam was commissioned into the Royal Green Jackets in 1973. He became Commanding Officer of his Regiment and was deployed in Northern Ireland in the early 1990s being appointed to the OBE and mentioned in despatches for his service there. In 1994 he went to South Africa as part of a Commonwealth Peace Keeping Force.

He became Director of Personnel Services in 2001 for the Army and went on to be General Officer Commanding 5th Infantry Division in 2003 and Military Secretary in 2005. In that role he increased the retirement age for officers in the Territorial Army to 60 and carried out a review of the Reserves recommending that they be used for augmentation as much as for maximum effort.

In retirement he became Registrar of St Paul's Cathedral.