COTTON, STAPLETON, 1ST VISCOUNT COMBERMERE, second son of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bart. (qv); b. 14 Nov 1773; adm. 28 Jan 1785; at school four years; 2nd Lieut., 23rd Foot, 26 Feb 1790; 1st Lieut., 13 Apr 1791; Capt., 6th Dragoon Guards, 28 Feb 1793; Maj., 59th Foot, 1794; Lieut. -Col., 25th Light Dragoons, 9 Mar 1794; Brevet Col., 1 Jan 1800; Lieut. -Col., 16th Light Dragoons, 14 Feb 1800; served in Flanders 1793-4, at Cape Town 1795, in campaign against Tippoo Sahib 1799, and in Dublin during Emmett’s insurrection 1800; Brig. -Gen., 11 Feb 1804; Maj. -Gen., 30 Oct 1805; commanded allied cavalry during part of Peninsular War; wounded at Salamanca 1812; Lieut. -Gen., 1 Jan 1812; Col., 20th Light Dragoons, 27 Jan 1813 – Jan 1821 [check]; took part in Pyrenees Campaign, 1813-4; commanded allied cavalry in France, 1815-6; Governor of Barbados 1816-20; Col., 3rd Dragoons, 25 Jan 1821 – Sep 1828; Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, 1822-5; Gen., 27 May 1825; Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, 9 Feb 1825 - 1 Jan 1830; captured city of Bhurtpore, 28 Jan 1826; Col., 1st Life Guards, from 16 Sep 1829; Constable of the Tower (and Lord Lieut., Tower Hamlets) from 11 Oct 1852; Field-Marshal, 2 Oct 1855; MP Newark 1806 - 17 May 1814; succ. father as 6th baronet 24 Aug 1809; KB 21 Aug 1812; created Baron Combermere 17 May 1814, with annuity of £2000 p. a. for two generations; GCB 2 Jan 1815; GCH 1817; Governor of Sheerness 25 Jan 1821 – still 1829; Privy Councillor (I) 21 Nov 1822; created Viscount Combermere 8 Feb 1827; DCL Oxford Univ. 23 Jun 1830; Privy Councillor 16 Dec 1834; KCSI 19 Aug 1861; m. 1st, 1 Jan 1801 Lady Anne Maria Pelham-Clinton, eldest dau. of Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle, Major-Gen. in the Army; m. 2nd, 22 Jun 1814 Caroline, second dau. of Capt. William Fulke Greville RN; m. 3rd, 2 Oct 1838 Mary Woolley, dau. of Thomas Gibbings MD, Gibbings Grove, co. Cork; d. 21 Feb 1865. DNB.
COTTON, SIR ST. VINCENT, BART., elder son of Sir Charles Cotton, Bart. (qv); b. 6 Oct 1801; adm. 29 Mar 1815 (Packharness'); left 3 Dec 1817; succ. father as 6th baronet 23 Feb 1812; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Feb 1820; Cornet, 10th Light Dragoons (Hussars), 13 May 1826; Lieut., 13 Dec 1827; retd. on half-pay 19 Nov 1830; DL JP Cambridgeshire; a well-known sportsman in the hunting, shooting, racing, gaming, and puglistic world; played cricket for the Gentlemen against the Players 1832, 1835; gambled away his estates, and for many years made a living by driving The Age stagecoach on the London and Brighton road; m. a few days before his death Hepzibah Dimmick; d. 25 Jan 1863. DNB.
COTTON, SIR SYDNEY JOHN, second son of Henry Calveley Cotton (d. 1837, qv); b. 2 Dec 1792; adm. Jan 1805 (Lusus Alteri Westmon., iii, 52); left 1805; Cornet, 22nd Light Dragoons, 19 Apr 1810; Lieut., 13 Feb 1812; Capt., 1 Jan 1820; half-pay 25 Jul 1820; 3rd Foot (The Buffs), 2 May 1822; Maj., 41st Foot, 18 Jan 1828; 28th Foot, 25 Mar 1836; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 23 Nov 1841; Lieut. -Col., 28th Foot, 8 Jan 1843; 22nd Foot, 2 Dec 1847; Brevet Col., 20 Jun 1854; Lieut. -Col., 10th Foot, 14 Dec 1858; Maj. -Gen., 26 Oct 1858; Col., 10th Foot, 5 Feb 1863; Lieut. -Gen., 20 Apr 1866; Governor of Chelsea Hospital, 10 May 1872; KCB 24 Mar 1858; GCB 24 May 1873; served at almost every station where European troops were located in the three Indian presidencies; commanding in Peshawar Valley as 1st class Brigadier at outbreak of Indian Mutiny, and did good service on North-West Frontier; author, Nine Years on the North-West Frontier from 1854 to 1863, 1868, and other works; m. 1820 Marianne, dau. of Capt. --- Hallack, 22nd Light Dragoons [not found in Army List : was surname Hackett ? : a contemporary of his in 22nd Light Dragoons was Lieut. William Hackett]; d. 20 Feb 1874. DNB.
COTTON, THOMAS; b.; adm. 31 May 1771; in school list 1771.
COTTON, WILLIAM, son of Philip Cotton, Drayton, Shropshire, and his first wife Beatrice --- (IGI); bapt. Mucklestone, Staffs. 17 Aug 1689; adm.; QS 1706; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1710, adm. pens. 8 Jun 1710, aged 18, scholar 14 Apr 1711; BA 1713/4; MA 1717; of Salter’s Hall, Shropshire; m. 26 Oct 1719 (IGI) Catherine Holbrooke; d. 1734.
COTTON, WILLIAM, son of Rowland Cotton MP, Etwall, Derbs., and Mary, dau. of Sir Samuel Sleigh, Kt, Etwall, Derbs.; bapt. Etwall, Derbs. 1 Feb 1700 (IGI); adm. (aged 16) Apr 1718; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Mar 1718/9; of Bellaport Old Hall, Market Drayton, Shropshire, and of Etwall Hall, Derbs.; m. 14 Jun 1742 Rebecca, dau. of Daniel Webster; d. Jan 1776.
COTTON, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Cotton, Crakemarsh, Staffs., and Elizabeth, dau. of William Milner, Alderman of Leeds, and sister of Sir William Milner, Bart.; bapt. 4 Jun 1719; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1733/4; left 1736; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1736; BCL 17 Jan 1752; DCL 1754; adm. Gray’s Inn 11 Mar 1733 and to Middle Temple 12 Dec 1739, called to bar 13 May 1743; ordained deacon 24 May 1752, priest 23 Jun 1753 (both Lichfield); of Crakemarsh Hall, Staffs.; m. 16 Oct 1755 Hester Maria, only child of Sir Charles Tyrell, Bart.; d. 7 Jun 1782.
COTTON, WILLIAM, third son of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bart. (qv); bapt. 19 Oct 1777; adm. 25 Feb 1788; entered Army; Ensign [date and regt. ?]; Lieut. 1 Apr 1795; 32nd Foot 1 Oct 1795; Nantwich Volunteers 1 Jun 1797; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. 15 Apr 1795, matr. Mich. 1797; LLB 1801; ordained; Vicar of Audlem and Chaplain of Burleydam, Cheshire, 18 Oct 1802-36; Rector of Hinstock, Shropshire, 10 Apr 1810; Rector of Adderley, Shropshire, 17 Mar 1820 (still 1829); d. unm. 16 Jun 1853.
COTTRELL, EDWARD, son of Charles Cottrell, York, and Catherine ---; bapt. St. Martin’s, Coney Street, York 13 Feb 1746/7; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1761. [Parents presumably Charles Cotterel and Catherine Preston, who m. at New Malton, Yorks., 5 May 1743 (IGI)].
Couchman, Charles John, son of Edwin Couchman, of Hurstpierpoint, Sussex; b. Aug. 11, 1885; adm. Sept. 28, 1899 (R); left July 1902; an electrical engineer and wireless contractor. Coulborn, William Alfred Lindsay, son of Edward Alexander Coulborn, of Letheringsett, Norfolk, by Kate May, daughter of Frederick Wilkinson, of Manchester; b. Oct. 26, 1909; adm. Sept. 20, 1923 (R); left Dec. 1927; London School of Economics, London Univ.; B.Sc. (Econ.) 1935; Lecturer, Workers Educational Assn. 1939-40; Professor of Economics, Ogle thorpe Univ., Georgia 1946-61; 2nd Lieut. Lancashire Fus. Dec. 21, 1940; transferred to R. A. C. May 1, 1942; Major; M.B.E. (Mediterranean) June 21, 1945; m. July 14, 1956, Anne Stephanie, daughter of Harold Bowler, of Wimbledon.