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{{Short description|British Army officer}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix=[[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Viscount Combermere
| honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB|GCH|KSI|PC}}
| image =Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere by Mary Martha Pearson (née Dutton).jpg
| caption =
| birth_date =14 November 1773
| death_date =21 February 1865 (aged 91)
| birth_place =[[Lleweni Hall]], [[Denbighshire]]
| death_place =[[Clifton, Bristol]], [[Bristol]]
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| nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
| alma_mater =[[Westminster School]]
| order = [[Governor of Barbados]]
| term_start = 1817
| term_end = 1820
| monarch =[[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]]
| predecessor =John Foster Alleyne (acting)
| successor = John Brathwaite Skeete (acting)
| nickname =
| allegiance ={{UK}}
| branch ={{army|United Kingdom}}
| serviceyears =1790–1830
| rank =[[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]]
| unit =
| commands =[[22nd Dragoons|25th Light Dragoons]] [[16th The Queen's Lancers|16th Light Dragoons]] [[Commander-in-Chief, Ireland]] [[Commander-in-Chief, India]]
| battles =[[French Revolutionary Wars]] [[Fourth Anglo-Mysore War]] [[Peninsular War]]
| awards =[[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] [[Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order]] [[Order of the Star of India|Knight Companion of the Order of the Star of India]]
| relations =
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}}
[[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] '''Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCB|GCH|KSI|PC}} (14 November 1773 – 21 February 1865), was a [[British Army]] officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer he took part in the [[Flanders Campaign]], in the [[Fourth Anglo-Mysore War]] and in the suppression of [[Robert Emmet]]'s insurrection in 1803. He commanded a cavalry brigade in [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Sir Arthur Wellesley]]'s Army before being given overall command of the cavalry in the latter stages of the [[Peninsular War]]. He went on to be [[Commander-in-Chief, Ireland]] and then [[Commander-in-Chief, India]]. In the latter role he [[Siege of Bharatpur|stormed Bharatpur]]—a fort which previously had been deemed impregnable.

==Career==

===1790–1805===
Cotton was born at [[Lleweni Hall]] in Denbighshire,{{sfn|Shand|1902|page=394}} the second surviving son of [[Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet]] and Frances Cotton (née Stapleton). When he was eight, Cotton was sent to board at the grammar school in [[Audlem]] some {{convert|8|mi}} from the family's estate at [[Combermere Abbey]], where he was tutored by the headmaster, the Reverend William Salmon, who was also chaplain of the private Cotton chapel outside the estate gates.{{sfn|Stapleton Cotton|Stapleton Cotton|Knollys|1866|page=25}} A quick, lively boy, he was known by his family as 'Young Rapid,' and was continually in scrapes.{{sfn|Chichester|1887|pages=316–319}} After three years in Audlem, he continued his education at [[Westminster School]] where he joined the fourth form under Dr. Dodd and his contemporaries included future soldiers [[John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford|Jack Byng]], [[Robert Wilson (British Army officer, born 1777)|Robert Wilson]] and the poet [[Robert Southey]].{{sfn|Stapleton Cotton|Stapleton Cotton|Knollys|1866|page=25}} He was then sent to Norwood House, a private military academy in [[Bayswater]], which was run by a Shropshire militiaman, Major Reynolds, an acquaintance of his father's. On 26{{nbsp}}February 1790, Cotton's father obtained for him a [[second lieutenant|second-lieutenancy]], [[Purchase of commissions in the British Army|without purchase]], in the [[Royal Welch Fusiliers|23rd Regiment of Foot]] or Royal Welch Fusiliers, which he joined in Dublin in 1791.{{sfn|Stapleton Cotton|Stapleton Cotton|Knollys|1866|page=30}}<ref name=odnb>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6428|title=Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere|publisher= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|access-date=8 February 2014}}</ref> He was promoted to [[lieutenant]] in the [[77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot|77th Regiment of Foot]] on 9 April 1791<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13297|page=213|date=5 April 1791}}</ref> and, having transferred back to the 23rd Regiment of Foot on 13 April 1791,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13347|page=542|date=27 September 1791}}</ref> he was promoted to [[captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in the [[Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)|6th Dragoon Guards]] on 28 February 1793.<ref name=heath94>Heathcote, p. 94</ref> He served with his regiment at the [[Siege of Dunkirk (1793)|Siege of Dunkirk]] in August 1793 and at the [[Battle of Beaumont (1794)|Battle of Beaumont]] in April 1794 under the [[Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany|Duke of York]] during the [[Flanders Campaign]].<ref name=heath95>Heathcote, p. 95</ref> He became a [[major]] in the [[59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot|59th Regiment of Foot]] on 28 April 1794 and commanding officer of the [[22nd Dragoons|25th Light Dragoons]] (subsequently 22nd) with the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]] on 27 September 1794.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13707|page=973|date=23 September 1794}}</ref>

In 1796 Cotton went with his regiment to [[India]]. En route he took part in operations in [[Cape Colony]] (July to August 1796), and on arrival was present at the [[Siege of Seringapatam (1799)|Siege of Seringapatam]] in May 1799 during the [[Fourth Anglo-Mysore War]],<ref name=heath95/> where he first met [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Colonel Arthur Wellesley]], later the Duke of Wellington.<ref>{{cite book|first=A.J.|last=Smithers|title=Honorable Conquests: An account of the enduring work of the Royal Engineers throughout the Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bPHNAwAAQBAJ|year=1998|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-4738-1532-2|page=45}}</ref> He became commanding officer of the [[16th The Queen's Lancers|16th Light Dragoons]], then based in [[Brighton]], on 18 February 1800.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15231|page=153|date=15 February 1800}}</ref> Promoted to [[colonel]] on 1 January 1800,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15218|page=1|date=31 December 1799}}</ref> he was posted with his regiment to Ireland in 1802 and took part in the suppression of [[Robert Emmet]]'s insurrection in 1803.<ref name=heath95/> Promoted to [[major general (United Kingdom)|major-general]] on 2 November 1805,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15856|page=1341|date=29 October 1805}}</ref> he was given command of a cavalry brigade at [[Weymouth, Dorset|Weymouth]].<ref name=heath95/>

===Peninsular War===
Cotton was elected [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Newark (UK Parliament constituency)|Newark]] in 1806.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16029|page=657|date=16 May 1807}}</ref> He was deployed to [[Portugal]] in April 1809 and commanded a cavalry brigade in [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Sir Arthur Wellesley]]'s Army.<ref name=heath95/> Cotton was both courageous and also splendidly dressed in battle throughout the [[Peninsular War]] and was nicknamed the "Lion d' Or" ("Lion of Gold").<ref name=odnb/> He took part in the [[Second Battle of Porto]] in May 1809 and the [[Battle of Talavera]] in July 1809 and, having succeeded to his father's baronetcy in August 1809, returned home to view his estate.<ref name=heath95/> He returned to Portugal in May 1810 and, having been promoted to the local rank of [[lieutenant general (United Kingdom)|lieutenant-general]] and given overall command of the cavalry, fought at the [[Battle of Bussaco]] in September 1810 and then covered the withdrawal to the [[Lines of Torres Vedras]] later that year.<ref name=heath95/>

After fighting at the [[Battle of Sabugal]] in April 1811 and the [[Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro]] in May 1811, Cotton was promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant-general on 1 January 1812.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16556|page=2498|date=28 December 1811}}</ref> He took part in the [[Battle of Salamanca]] in July 1812, where he was second-in command of the Army. During the engagement he successfully led a cavalry charge against [[Antoine Louis Popon de Maucune|Maucune]]'s division, leading Wellington to exclaim, "By God, Cotton, I never saw anything so beautiful in my life; the day is ''yours''."{{sfn|Barthorp|1990|page=14}} According to Wellington's subsequent despatch, "Cotton made a most gallant and successful charge against a body of the enemy's infantry which they overthrew and cut to pieces."<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16633|page=1633|date=16 August 1812}}</ref> At the end of the battle he was accidentally shot by a Portuguese sentry.<ref name=heath95/> In recognition of his gallantry he was appointed a [[Order of the Bath|Knight of the Order of the Bath]] on 21 August 1812<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16636|page=1677|date=18 August 1812}}</ref> and an honorary [[Order of the Tower and Sword|Knight Grand Cross of the Portuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword]] on 11 March 1813.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16711|page=531|date=13 March 1813}}</ref>

Cotton went on to fight at the [[Battle of the Pyrenees]] in July 1813, the [[Battle of Orthez]] in February 1814 and the [[Battle of Toulouse (1814)|Battle of Toulouse]] in April 1814.<ref name=heath95/> For these services he was raised to the [[peerage]] as '''Baron Combermere''' in the county palatine of Chester on 3 May 1814<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16894|page=936|date=3 May 1814}}</ref> and advanced to [[Order of the Bath|Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] on 4 January 1815.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16972|date=4 January 1815|page=18}}</ref>

===1815–1822===
[[File:Statue of Viscount Combermere on Grosvenor Road - geograph.org.uk - 526864.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Equestrian Statue of Viscount Combermere|Statue of Lord Combermere]] outside [[Chester Castle]], Cheshire]]
Cotton was not present at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] as the command of the cavalry had been given, at the insistence of the [[George IV of the United Kingdom|Prince Regent]], to [[Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey|Lord Uxbridge]], a more senior general.<ref name=heath96>Heathcote, p. 96</ref> When Uxbridge was wounded Cotton took over his command and served with the Army of Occupation following the cessation of hostilities.<ref name=heath96/>

Cotton became [[List of Governors of Barbados|Governor of Barbados]] and commander of the West Indian forces in March 1817.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=17235|page=786|date=29 March 1817}}</ref> In the West Indies, Cotton's [[aide-de-camp]] was [[Thomas Moody (1779-1849)|Sir Thomas Moody]]<ref name="Royal Military Calendar">{{cite book | title = The Royal Military Calendar or Army Service and Commission Book, Third Edition, Vol. V, 1820 | page=333}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title =Slave Trade. Three Volumes. (Vol.2.) Papers Relating to Slaves in the Colonies; Slaves Manumitted; Slaves Imported, Exported; Manumissions, Marriages; Slave Trade at the Mauritius; Apprenticed Africans; Captured negroes at Tortola, St. Christopher's, and Demerara; etc. Session: 21 November 1826 – 2 July 1827: Vol XXII|page = Slave Trade: Papers Relating To, p. 54 | publisher=House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1826–1827}}</ref><ref name="Rupprecht">{{cite journal|last1=Rupprecht|first1=Anita|date=September 2012|title='When he gets among his countrymen,they tell him that he is free': Slave Trade Abolition, Indentured Africans and a Royal Commission|journal=Slavery & Abolition|volume=33 |issue=3 |pages= 435–455|doi=10.1080/0144039X.2012.668300|s2cid=144301729}}</ref>

Cotton is mentioned in unverified stories of the [[Chase Vault]] as being a witness to its allegedly "moving coffins" while serving as Governor of Barbados.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.combermereabbey.co.uk/the-abbey/ghosts-and-paranormal|title=Lord Combermere's Ghost|publisher=Combermere Abbey|access-date=8 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222142619/http://www.combermereabbey.co.uk/the-abbey/ghosts-and-paranormal|archive-date=22 February 2014}}</ref> Between 1814 and 1820, Cotton undertook an extensive remodelling of his home, [[Combermere Abbey]], including Gothic ornamentation of the Abbot's House and the construction of Wellington's Wing (now demolished) to mark Wellington's visit to the house in 1820.<ref>Callander Beckett S (2004) 'A Brief History of Combermere Abbey' (pamphlet)</ref> He was appointed the last [[Governor of Sheerness]] in January 1821<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=17676|page=289|date=3 February 1821}}</ref> and became [[Commander-in-Chief, Ireland]] in 1822.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=18130|page=700|date=23 April 1825}}</ref>

===1825–30===
{{see also|Siege of Bharatpur}}
Having been promoted to full [[general]] on 27 May 1825 Cotton became [[Commander-in-Chief, India]].<ref name=heath96/> In that role on 18{{nbsp}}January 1826, after a [[Siege of Bharatpur|three-week siege]], he stormed the capital of the [[Princely state]] of [[Bharatpur State|Bharatpur]] (also known as Bhurtpore) with its fort, which had previously been deemed impregnable, and restored the rightful ''[[raja]]'' to the throne.<ref name=DT>{{Cite news|title=Viscount Combermere|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1374349/Viscount-Combermere.html|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=16 November 2000|access-date=1 December 2015}}</ref> For his success in India he was raised in the peerage as '''Viscount Combermere''' on 8{{nbsp}}February 1827.{{sfn|Burke|1869|page=254}} On his return to England, he brought with him the 17.75-ton Bhurtpore gun,<ref name=DT /> which for many years stood outside the [[Royal Artillery Barracks]] at Woolwich.{{sfn|Murray|1878|page=486}} He retired from active service in 1830.<ref name=heath96/>

===Post 1850===
[[File:Memorial to Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere.jpg|thumb|Memorial in St Margaret's Church, Wrenbury]]
He succeeded Wellington as [[Constable of the Tower]] and [[Lord Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets]] in October 1852<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21366|page=2663|date=12 October 1852}}</ref> and was promoted to [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|field marshal]] on 2 October 1855.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21792|page=3652|date=2 October 1855}}</ref> He was appointed a [[Order of the Star of India|Knight of the Order of the Star of India]] on 19 August 1861.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22542|page=3501|date=27 August 1861}}</ref>

Cotton also served as honorary colonel of the [[20th Hussars|20th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons]], and of the [[3rd The King's Own Hussars|3rd (The King's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=17676|page=288|date=3 February 1821}}</ref> and then as honorary colonel of the [[1st Regiment of Life Guards]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=18614|page=1765|date=25 September 1829}}</ref> He died at Colchester House in [[Clifton, Bristol|Clifton]] on 21 February 1865 aged 91 and was buried at [[St Margaret's Church, Wrenbury]].<ref name=odnb/> An [[Equestrian Statue of Viscount Combermere|equestrian statue in bronze]], the work of [[Carlo Marochetti|Carlo, Baron Marochetti]], was raised in his honour at [[Chester]] by the inhabitants of Cheshire in October 1865.<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1376255|desc= Equestrian statue of Stapleton Cotton Viscount Combermere|access-date= 8 February 2014}}</ref> An [[obelisk]] was also erected in his memory on the edge of [[Combermere Abbey|Combermere Park]] in 1890.<ref name=gene>{{cite web|url=http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/combermere.html|title= The Cottons of Combermere Abbey|access-date=8 February 2014}}</ref> Combermere was succeeded by his only son, [[Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, 2nd Viscount Combermere|Wellington Henry Stapleton-Cotton]].<ref name=heath96/>

==Slave ownership==

According to the ''[[Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery|Legacies of British Slave-Ownership]]'' at the [[University College London]], Combermere was awarded a payment as a slave owner in the aftermath of the [[Slavery Abolition Act 1833]] with the [[Slave Compensation Act 1837]]. The British Government took out a £15 million loan (worth £{{format price|{{inflation|UK|15,000,000|1833}}}} in {{CURRENT YEAR}}){{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}} with interest from [[Nathan Mayer Rothschild]] and [[Moses Montefiore]] which was subsequently paid off by the British taxpayers (ending in 2015).<ref>{{Cite news|author=Kris Manjapra|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/29/slavery-abolition-compensation-when-will-Britain-face-up-to-its-crimes-against-humanity|title=When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity?|date=29 March 2018|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=30 March 2018}}</ref> Combermere was associated with two different claims, he owned 420 slaves in [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]] and received a £7,195 payment at the time (worth £{{format price|{{inflation|UK|7,195|1833}}}} in {{CURRENT YEAR}}).{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/25180|publisher=[[University College London]]}} Retrieved on 20 March 2019.</ref>

==Family==
[[File:Combermere.jpg|right|thumb|150px|A memorial obelisk in [[Combermere Abbey|Combermere Park]], near [[Whitchurch, Shropshire]].]]
Combermere was married three times:

*On 1 January 1801, Lady Anna Maria Clinton (d. 31 May 1807), daughter of [[Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle]]. They had three children:<ref name=gene/>
:* Robert Henry Stapleton Cotton (18 January 1802 – 1821)
:* a son who died young
:* another son who died young.
*On 22 June 1814,<ref>{{cite book|title=Marriage Register of St Mary Lambeth}}</ref> Caroline Greville (d. 25 January 1837), daughter of Captain William Fulke Greville. They had three children:<ref name=gene/>
:* [[Wellington Henry Stapleton-Cotton, 2nd Viscount Combermere]] (1818–1891)
:* Hon. Caroline Stapleton-Cotton (b. 1815), who in 1837 married [[Arthur Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire]]
:* Hon. Meliora Emily Anna Maria Cotton, who on 18 June 1853 married John Charles Frederick Hunter
*In 1838, Mary Woolley (née Gibbings), by whom he had no issue.<ref name=odnb/>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Sources==
*{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Barthorp|author-link=Michael Barthorp|title=Wellington's Generals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1W4k4GYVUi0C|year=1990|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=978-0-85045-299-0}}
*{{cite book|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire|last1=Burke|first1=Bernard|author1-link=Bernard Burke|url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhera00inburk|year=1869|publisher=Harrison|location=London}}
*{{cite book|last=Heathcote|first=Tony|title=The British Field Marshals, 1736–1997: A Biographical Dictionary |publisher= Leo Cooper|location=Barnsley|year= 1999|isbn= 0-85052-696-5}}
*{{cite book|first=John|last=Murray|title=Handbook for England and Wales: Alphabetically Arranged for the Use of Travellers ...|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookforengl00firgoog|year=1878|publisher=J. Murray}}
*{{cite book|first=Alexander Innes |last=Shand|author-link=Alexander Innes Shand|title=Wellington's Lieutenants|url=https://archive.org/details/wellingtonslieu00shangoog|year=1902|publisher=Smith, Elder & Company}}
*{{cite book|first1=Mary Woolley|last1=Stapleton Cotton|first2=Stapleton|last2=Stapleton Cotton|first3=William Wallingford|last3=Knollys|title=Memoirs and Correspondence of Field-marshal Viscount Combermere, from his family papers, by Mary Viscountess Combermere and W.W. Knollys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KTwBAAAAQAAJ|year=1866}}

;Attribution
{{DNB|wstitle=Cotton, Stapleton|first=Henry Manners|last=Chichester|authorlink=Henry Manners Chichester|volume=12|year=1887}}

== External links ==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-stapleton-cotton | the Viscount Combermere }}
* {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Combermere, Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount | volume= 6 | page = 751 |short= 1}}
* {{UK National Archives ID}}

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