Cotton, Stapleton, Sir, 1773-1865, 1st Viscount Combermere, army officer

1790 second lieutenant, 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers; 1791 first lieutenant; 1793 joined 6th carabiniers; 1793-1794 served in the French Revolutionary Wars; 1794 major in the 59th foot, then lieutenant-colonel of the 25th light dragoons (Gwyn's hussars); 1799 served in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War; ? 1800 joined the 16th light dragoons; 1800 colonel; 1805 major-general; 1806-1814 MP for Newark; 1808-1809 and 1810-1812 served in the Peninsular War; 1810 commander of the 1st division, then of the whole of the allied cavalry; 1812 knighthood, lieutenant-general; 1813-1818 colonel of the 20th light dragoons; 1814 baronetcy; 1815-1816 commander of the allied cavalry in Belgium, later France; 1815 GCB; 1817-1820 governor of Barbados and commander-in-chief in the Leeward Islands; 1821-1829 colonel of the 3rd light dragoons; 1821-1852 governor of Sheerness; 1822-1825 commander-in-chief in Ireland; 1825 general; 1825–1830 commander-in-chief in India; 1827 viscount; 1829 colonel of the 1st Life Guards; 1852–1865 Constable of the Tower of London; 1855 field marshal.

Epithet: army officer

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