Richard Stapleton-Cotton

Richard Stapleton-Cotton
Richard Stapleton-Cotton
Birth name	Richard Greville Arthur Wellington Stapleton-Cotton
Born	7 November 1873; First World War
Awards	Member of the Royal Victorian Order; Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Companion of the Bath
Other work	Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod

MVO (7 November 1873 – 5 January 1953) was a British officer of the Royal Navy

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Early life and family

Richard Greville Arthur Wellington Stapleton-Cotton was born at

Justice of the Peace for Shropshire and Cheshire.^[2]

In 1910, he married Olive Harriet Cotton-Jodrell,

Member of Parliament for Wirral, and his wife Mary Rennell Coleridge.^[4]

Stapleton-Cotton and his dog Tinker are the only two males ever to be accepted as fully paid-up members of the Women's Institute: he played a major part in setting up the first WI meeting in the UK, held in Anglesey in 1915.^[5]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Richard Stapleton-Cotton

8. Field Marshal Rt. Hon. Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, first Viscount Combermere^[12]

4. Col. Rt. Hon. Wellington Henry Stapleton-Cotton, Viscount Combermere^[8]

9. Caroline Greville^[13]

2. Col. Hon. Richard Southwell George Stapleton-Cotton^[6]

10. Sir George Sitwell, second Baronet^[14]

5. Susan Alice Sitwell^[9]

11. Susan Tait^[15]

1. Admiral Richard Greville Arthur Wellington Stapleton-Cotton

12. Rt. Hon. Paul Methuen, first Baron Methuen^[16]

6. Rt. Hon. Frederick Henry Methuen, second Baron Methuen^[10]

13. Jane Dorothea St John-Mildmay^[17]

3. Hon. Jane Charlotte Methuen^[7]

14. Rev. John Sanford^[18]

7. Anna Horatia Caroline Sanford^[11]

15. Eliza Georgiana Morgan^[19]

Naval career

Stapleton-Cotton entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1887. He was promoted to midshipman two years later and then became a Sub-Lieutenant in 1893, lieutenant two years later, commander in 1905 and captain in 1913. He was the Commander at^[20] the Royal Naval College at Osborne from 1906 to 1910.^[21] Promoted to rear-admiral in 1923^[22] and then to vice-admiral in 1928, he was placed on the retired list by 1931.^[23] In 1932, he was promoted to the rank of admiral in the retired list.^[24]

In 1905, he was appointed a Member of the

Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937 and took part in the procession into the Abbey.^[27]

Later life

Admiral Stapleton-Cotton died on 5 January 1953, aged 79, in Merionethshire. He left an estate worth over £24,000.^[28]

References

Citations

^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23 ; Who Was Who, vol. 5, 1961, p. 1038 for date of death.
^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1920, pt. 1, p. 195
^ England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes, General Register Office, Marriage Records, Q3 1910, vol. 8a, p. 731
^ Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, 1913, p. 257 ; Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, 1929, p. 441
^ Prior, Neil (24 February 2014). "WI started in Wales during Great War". BBC News. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23
^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23
^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 21
^ Cris, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18p, p. 21
^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23
^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23 ; London Metropolitan Archives, St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Transcript of baptisms, marriages and burials, Jan 1824-Dec 1824, DL/T/089/019.
^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 20
^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 20 ; daughter of Capt. William Fulke Greville RN.
^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 21
^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 21 ; daughter of Crauford Tait
^ Cokayne, Complete Peerage, 1895, 1st ed., vol. 5, p. 305
^ Cokayne, Complete Peerage, 1895, 1st ed., vol. 5, p. 305 ; daughter of Sir Henry Paulet St John-Mildmay, formerly St John.
^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23 ; of Nynehead
^ W.J. Fitzpatrick, The Life, Times and Contemporaries of Lord Cloncurry, 1855, pp. 302-303.
^ ADM 196/89/155
^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23
^ Navy List, July 1924, p. 75
^ Navy List, July 1931, 552
^ The London Gazette, 21 October 1932, issue 33875, p. 6626
^ Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23
^ The London Gazette, 21 October 1932, issue 33875, p. 6626
^ Who Was Who, vol. 5, 1961, p. 1038 ; Supplement to the London Gazette, 10 November 1937, no. 34453, p. 7047
^ England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes, General Register Office, Death Records, Q1 1953, vol. 8c, p. 1 ; National Probate Calendar, 1953

Bibliography

G.E. Cokayne (1895), The Complete Peerage, 1st edition, volume 5.
F.A. Crisp (1914), Visitation of England and Wales, volume 18.
A.C. Fox-Davies (1929), Armorial Families, seventh edition.

Honorary titles
Preceded by Wyndham Murray	Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod 1928–1932	Succeeded by Charles Longcroft

[1] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23 ; Who Was Who, vol. 5, 1961, p. 1038 for date of death.

[2] Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1920, pt. 1, p. 195

[3] England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes, General Register Office, Marriage Records, Q3 1910, vol. 8a, p. 731

[4] Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, 1913, p. 257 ; Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, 1929, p. 441

[5] Prior, Neil (24 February 2014). "WI started in Wales during Great War". BBC News. Retrieved 25 January 2019.

[6] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23

[7] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23

[8] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 21

[9] Cris, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18p, p. 21

[10] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23

[11] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23 ; London Metropolitan Archives, St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Transcript of baptisms, marriages and burials, Jan 1824-Dec 1824, DL/T/089/019.

[12] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 20

[13] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 20 ; daughter of Capt. William Fulke Greville RN.

[14] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 21

[15] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 21 ; daughter of Crauford Tait

[16] Cokayne, Complete Peerage, 1895, 1st ed., vol. 5, p. 305

[17] Cokayne, Complete Peerage, 1895, 1st ed., vol. 5, p. 305 ; daughter of Sir Henry Paulet St John-Mildmay, formerly St John.

[18] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23 ; of Nynehead

[19] W.J. Fitzpatrick, The Life, Times and Contemporaries of Lord Cloncurry, 1855, pp. 302-303.

[20] ADM 196/89/155

[21] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23

[22] Navy List, July 1924, p. 75

[23] Navy List, July 1931, 552

[24] The London Gazette, 21 October 1932, issue 33875, p. 6626

[25] Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 23

[26] The London Gazette, 21 October 1932, issue 33875, p. 6626

[27] Who Was Who, vol. 5, 1961, p. 1038 ; Supplement to the London Gazette, 10 November 1937, no. 34453, p. 7047

[28] England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes, General Register Office, Death Records, Q1 1953, vol. 8c, p. 1 ; National Probate Calendar, 1953

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