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). | |