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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Cotton    
First Name(s)  Stapleton    
Titles  First Viscount Combermere    
Year of Birth  1773    
Year of Death  1865    
Entry  Field-Marshal : son of Sir R. S. Cotton, fifth Baronet : M.P. : born Nov. 1773 : educated at Westminster, and at a private Military Academy in Bayswater : entered the Army in 1790, in the 23rd Fusiliers ; served in Flanders : was Lt-Colonel of a Cavalry regt. at the Cape on his way to India, where he was engaged in 1799 against Tippoo, being at Malvailli and Seringapatam : returned to England, 1800 : was M.P. for Newark, 1806-14 : as Maj -General he commanded, first a Brigade in the Peninsula, from 1808, and later the whole cavalry Division : succeeded as Baronet in 1809 : was at Talavera and Salamanca : K.C.B. in 1812 : and at other engagements, including the Pyrenees campaign and Toulouse : was made Baron Combermere in May, 1814, and received a pension. He commanded the allied cavalry in France in 1815-6 : was Governor of Barbados 1817-20, and Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, 1822-5 : as C. in C. in India, 1825-1830, he besieged and took Bhartpur on Jan. 18, 1826, and was made Viscount in 1827 : Constable of the Tower, 1852 : Field-Marshal, 1855 : he was G.C.B. in 1815 : G.C.H. in 1817 : D.C.L. in 1830 : Privy Councillor, 1843 : K.C.S.I., 1861 : died Feb. 21, 1865.     
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