Francis Stapleton-Cotton, 4th Viscount Combermere

Francis Lynch Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, 4th Viscount Combermere DL (29 June 1887 – 8 February 1969)

Early life He was born on 29 June 1887. He was the only son of Robert Stapleton-Cotton, 3rd Viscount Combermere and the former Isabel Marian (née Chetwynd) Poole, the former wife of Cudworth Halsted Poole of Marbury Hall (the High Sheriff of Cheshire). ten-year old Francis succeeded as the 9th Baronet Cotton of Combermere (created for his ancestor Sir Robert Cotton in the Baronetage of England in 1677) as well as the 4th Baron Combermere of Combermere (created for Stapleton Cotton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1814 due to his services in the Battle of the Pyrenees, the Battle of Orthez and the Battle of Toulouse during the Peninsular War) and the 4th Viscount Combermere of Bhurtpore (also created for Stapleton Cotton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1827 for his success as Commander-in-Chief, India). They divorced in 1926, and she later died on 15 April 1943. Together, they were the parents of two sons: who married Pamela Coulson, a daughter of Rev. Robert Gustavus Coulson.