The daughter of Robert Gibbings of Cork; in 1838 she became the third wife of Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, first Viscount Combermere.

CORRESPONDENCE OF Lady Mary Woolley Cotton [née Gibbings]:

Lady Morgan to Lady Combermere, [January 1859] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Lady Morgan to Lady Combermere, 11 April 1859 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)