Michael Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, 5th Viscount Combermere (8 August 1929 – 3 November 2000) was a British academic and Crossbencher in the House of Lords.
He was the eldest son of Francis Stapleton-Cotton, 4th Viscount Combermere.
He was educated at Eton, after which he served first with the Palestine Police Force, 1947–48, and then the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1948–50, and thereafter served for eight years with the Royal Air Force, retiring in 1958 in the rank of flight lieutenant.
He then went on to study at King's College London in 1962, graduating with a lower second-class honours Bachelor of Divinity degree[1] and a Master of Theology degree.
He sat in the House of Lords as a Crossbencher but lost his seat in parliament in 1999 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.