Viscount Combermere

It was created in 1827 for the prominent military commander Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, 1st Baron Combermere.

He had previously inherited the baronetcy, of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester, which was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 March 1677 for his great-great-grandfather Robert Cotton.

As of 2010[update] the titles are held by the latter's great-great-grandson, the sixth Viscount, who succeeded his father in 2000.

The traditional burial place of the viscounts was at St Margaret's Church, Wrenbury.

Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere was a joint owner of a number of plantations on St Kitts and Nevis between 1822 and 1834.