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Cotton, Stapleton, 1st Viscount Combermere
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British Army officer, politician, colonial administrator and slave-owner.
Cotton came from a family with extensive involvement in British slave-ownership in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. Sir William Stapleton (?-1686) was Governor of the Leeward Islands from 1671 to 1686 and acquired a number of estates in Antigua, St Kitts, Nevis, and Montserrat. Stapleton Cotton (1773-1865), Baron Combermere (from 1814) and Viscount Combermere (from 1827) inherited the family interest and became the co-owner of two enslaved labour-estates in St Kitts and Nevis in the 1820s. Upon abolition, Cotton received £3,739 in compensation for 227 enslaved people on his estate in St Kitts, and £3,465 for 193 enslaved people on his estates in Nevis. In 1862, Cotton transferred his Caribbean estates to his son Wellington Henry (1818-91), 2nd Viscount Combermere, with the family interest in the region lasting into the early twentieth century.
In addition to his involvement in slave-ownership, Cotton also served in various capacities as a military officer and colonial administrator in the Caribbean, Ireland, and India. From 1817 to 1820, Cotton served as Governor of Barbados, before later becoming Commander-in-Chief in Ireland from 1822 to 1825 and India from 1825 to 1830. - was born | est né
- 14 November 1773
- died in | est mort par
- 21 February 1865
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- Wikipedia
- Hansard
- Legacies of British Slavery
- Ancestry - Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834
- National Portrait Gallery
- University of Manchester Special Collections - Stapleton Manuscripts
- Bangor University Archives - Stapleton-Cotton Manuscripts
- National Archives - Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
- Google Books - Memoirs and Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere (vol 1)
- Google Books - Memoirs and Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere (vol 2)
- Hilary Beckles, A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Caribbean Single Market (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
- Elsa V. Goveia, Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1965)
- J. R. Johnston, 'The Stapleton Sugar Plantations in the Leeward Islands', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 48, 1, (1965) 175-206
- Natalie Zacek, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
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