Stapleton Cotton, first viscount Combermere

(1773-1865)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Combermere, Stapleton Cotton, Viscount, 1773-1865 NRA: Cotton, Stapleton (1773-1865) 1st Viscount Combermere, Field Marshal DNB: Cotton, Stapleton, first Viscount Combermere (1773-1865), army officer LBT ID: LdCombe1 VIAF ID: 28763907 LOC ID: n94070985	B/BAP: 1773-11-14 DIED: 1865-02-21
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Educated at Westminster School, he served as an officer in India and in the Peninsular Campaign, was MP for Newark (1806-14), and was commander-in-chief in Ireland (1822-25) and India (1825-30).
REFERENCES TO Stapleton Cotton, first viscount Combermere: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 February 1821 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 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) Found 1: ¶ 2 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXXIX Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch I: 1821