1772 - 1865 (93 years)
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| Name |
Stapleton (Viscount Combermere) Cotton |
| Prefix |
Sir |
| Suffix |
GCB,GCH,KSI, |
| Birth |
1772 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1865 |
| Person ID |
I97139 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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| Notes |
- The 1st Viscount, the Field Marshall, was an intimate of the Iron Duke and fought with him on many campaigns, the latter was recorded as saying that in entrusting an order to [Combermere] he knew it would be carried out with discretion as well as zeal. But Wellington apparently objected to Lord Bathurst's idea of conferring a peerage on Sir Stapleton Cotton 6th Bt (as he then was) after his services in the 1812 battle of Salamanca, for fear of offending a more senior officer in the army. The baronet had to wait another two years before gaining a barony in 1814, on the way to the Viscountcy in 1827.
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