Creation: let. pat. 8 Feb 1827

Family name: Cotton later Stapleton-Cotton

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Arms:

Quarterly:  1st and 4th, Azure a Chevron between three Hanks of Cotton Argent palewise and in chief pendant from a Ribbon Gules a representation of the Medal and Clasps presented to the 1st Viscount Combermere (Cotton); 2nd and 3rd, Argent a Lion rampant Sable (Stapleton)

Crests:

1st:  a Falcon wings expanded and inverted proper beaked membered and belled Or holding in the dexter claw part of a Belt proper buckled Gold;  2nd:  on a Mount Vert a Dragoon of the 20th Regiment mounted on a Horse Sable and in the act of charging and over the Crest in an Escrol Azure the word "Salamanca" in Letters Or;  3rd:  out of a Ducal Coronet Or a Saracen's Head couped at the shoulders affrontée wreathed round the shoulders Argent and Sable

Supporters:

On either side a Falcon wings expanded and endorsed proper beaked membered and belled Or the dexter supporting a Spear also proper therefrom flowing to the dexter a Swallow-tailed Standard Vert semy of Estoiles Or Streamers and Tassels of the last and the sinister supporting a like Spear therefrom flowing to the sinister a Swallow-tailed Standard Or Streamers and Tassels of the last

Motto:

In Utraque Fortuna Paratus (Prepared in all circumstances)

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Stapleton [Cotton later Stapleton-Cotton], 1st Baron Combermere later 1st Viscount Combermere, GCB GCH KSI

1st son of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Bt. MP, of Combermere, co. Chester, by his wife Frances Stapleton, dau. and cohrss. of James Russel Stapleton, of Boddryddon, co. Denbigh

born

14 Nov 1773

mar. (1)

1 Jan 1801 Lady Anna Maria Pelham-Clinton (dsps. 31 May 1807), 1st dau. of Thomas [Pelham-Clinton], 3rd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme, by his wife Lady Anna Maria Stanhope, 5th dau. of William [Stanhope], 2nd Earl of Harrington

mar. (2)

18 Jun 1814 Caroline Greville (d. 25 Jan 1837), 2nd dau. of Capt William Fulke Greville RN, by his wife Meliora Southwell, only child of Rev Hon Richard Southwell, Rector of Dungourney, co. Cork (by his wife Jane Kenat), 5th son of Thomas [Southwell], 1st Baron Southwell

mar. (3)

2 Oct 1838 Mary Woolley (d. 31 Aug 1889), only child of Robet Gibbings, of Cork and of Gibbings Grove, co. Limerick

died

21 Feb 1865

created

17 May 1814 Baron Combermere, of Combermere in the County of Chester

8 Feb 1827 Viscount Combermere, of Bhurtpore in the East Indies and Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester

suc. by

son by second wife

note

suc. his father 24 Aug 1809 as 6th Baronet;  Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Barbados 1817-20;  Commander-in-Chief in Ireland 1822-25;  Commander-in-Chief in India 1825-29;  Constable of the Tower of London 1852-65;  Field Marshal 1855

Wellington Henry [Stapleton-Cotton], 2nd Viscount Combermere

born

24 Nov 1818

mar.

29 Jul 1844 Susan Alice Sitwell (d. 12 Aug 1869), 1st dau. of Sir George Sitwell, 2nd Bt., of Renishaw Hall, co. Derby, by his wife Susan Tait, 1st dau. of Crauford Tait, of Harvleston, co. Clakmannan

died

1 Dec 1891

suc. by

son

Robert Wellington [Stapleton-Cotton], 3rd Viscount Combermere

born

18 Jun 1845

mar. (1)

2 Jun 1866 Charlotte Ann Fletcher, only dau. and hrss. of Jacob Fletcher Ellis Fletcher, of Peel Hall, co. Lancaster

mar. (2)

22 Jun 1880 Isabel Marian Poole (widow of Cudworth Halsted Poole, of Marbury Hall, co. Shropshire;  d. 17 Sep 1930), 1st dau. of Sir George Chetwynd, 3rd Bt., by his wife Lady Charlotte Augusta Hill, 1st dau. of Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull [Hill], 3rd Marquess of Downshire

died

20 Feb 1898

suc. by

son by second wife

Francis Lynch Wellington [Stapleton-Cotton], 4th Viscount Combermere

born

29 Jun 1887

mar. (1)

30 Oct 1913 (div. 1926) Hazel Louisa Agnew (d. 15 Apr 1943), 2nd dau. of Henry de Courcy Agnew (by his wife Ethel Anne Goff, dau. of Capt Thomas William Goff, of Oakport, co. Roscommon), 2nd son of Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Bt. of Lochnaw, by his wife Lady Louisa Noel, 1st dau. by his second wife of Charles [Noel], 1st Earl of Gainsborough

mar. (2)

1 Jan 1927 Constance Marie Katherine Drummond (d. 29 Jun 1968), yst. dau. of Lt Col Sir Francis Dudley Drummond KBE, of Hafodneddyn, Llandilo, co. Carmarthen, by his wife Marguerite Violet Maude Agnew, 2nd dau. of Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Bt. of Lochnaw (see above)

children by second wife

1. Hon Michael Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, later 5th Viscount Combermere

2. Capt Hon David Peter Dudley Stapleton-Cotton, heir presumptive to the Viscountcy of Combermere (b. 6 Mar 1932), mar. 9 Feb 1955 Susan Nomakepu Albu, 2nd dau. by his first wife of Sir George Werner Albu, 2nd Bt., and has issue:

1a. Simon Stapleton-Cotton (b. 29 Mar 1959), mar. 1993 Tessa Cummings, dau. of Dr John Cummings, of Cape Town, South Africa, and has issue:

1b. Oliver Dudley Stapleton-Cotton (b. 14 Jun 1994)

2b. James Peter George Stapleton-Cotton (b. 15 Mar 1996)

2a. Toby James Stapleton-Cotton (b. 13 Jun 1966), mar. 20 Oct 2000 Tanya Ulyate, and has issue

1a. Nicola Caroline Louisa Stapleton-Cotton (b. 20 Jul 1957), mar. 1994 Martin Street, son of Brian Street, of Evesham, co. Worcester, and has issue

2a. Polly Stapleton-Cotton (b. 19 Feb 1961), mar. (1) 1990 (div. 1997) Bernard John Harton, of Worcester, and (2) 2002 Darin Sacker

died

8 Feb 1969

suc. by

son by second wife

Michael Wellington [Stapleton-Cotton], 5th Viscount Combermere

born

5 Aug 1929

mar.

4 Feb 1961 Pamela Elizabeth Jill Coulson, 1st dau. of Rev. Robert Gustavus Coulson, Rector of Stansted, co. Kent

children

1. Hon Thomas Robert Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, later 6th Viscount Combermere

1. Hon Tara Christabel Stapleton-Cotton (b. 26 Nov 1961), mar. 1992 Laurent Saglio

2. Hon Sophia Mary Stapleton-Cotton (b. 20 Jul 1963), mar. 1995 Greville Worthington

died

3 Nov 2000

suc. by

son

Thomas Robert Wellington [Stapleton-Cotton], 6th Viscount Combermere

born

30 Aug 1969

The heir presumptive to the Viscountcy of Combermere is Capt Hon David Peter Dudley Stapleton-Cotton, second son by his second wife of the 4th Viscount Combermere and uncle of the present Viscount.

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Titles:

6th Viscount Combermere, of Bhurtpore in the East Indies and of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester

(United Kingdom, let. pat. 8 Feb 1827)

6th Baron Combermere, of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester

(United Kingdom, let. pat. 17 May 1814)

11th Baronet, styled "of Combermere, co. Chester"

(England, let. pat. 29 Mar 1677)

Address:

Vanners, Bucklebury Common, Berkshire RG7 6RU

Tel:  0118-971 3336

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