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
Combermere Abbey
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Combermere Abbey is a former monastery, later a country house, near Burleydam, between Nantwich, Cheshire and Whitchurch in Shropshire, England, located within Cheshire and near the border with Shrops
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
…Cotton (née Stapleton). When he was eight, Cotton was sent to board at the grammar school in Audlem some 8 miles (13 km) 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. A…
Abbot's house and clock tower
Comber Mere, the monastery's setting
St Mary's, Acton and its associated chapels were given to the abbey. This building originates in the 13th century.
Henry Beaufort, one of many men put in charge of the abbey