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Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C
Date transcribed | 2011-01-01 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note 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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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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