Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, was a British Army officer, politician and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Barbados from 1817 to 1820. As a junior officer
Portrait by Mary Martha Pearson, 1825
The Lord Combermere pub in Audlem, Cheshire
Statue of Lord Combermere outside Chester Castle, Cheshire
Memorial in St Margaret's Church, Wrenbury
Irish rebellion of 1803
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The Irish rebellion of 1803 was an attempt by Irish republicans to seize the seat of the British government in Ireland, Dublin Castle, and trigger a nationwide insurrection. Renewing the struggle of 1
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
…served as the governor of Barbados from 1817 to 1820. As a junior officer, he took part in the Flanders campaign, the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and in the Irish rebellion of 1803. Cotton commanded a cavalry brigade in Sir Arthur Wellesley's Army before being given overall command of the cavalry in the latter stages of the…
Depiction of Robert Emmet's trial