Admiral Richard Greville Arthur Wellington Stapleton-Cotton CB CBE MVO (7 November 1873 – 5 January 1953) was a British officer of the Royal Navy.

Early life and family

Richard Greville Arthur Wellington Stapleton-Cotton was born at Wellington Barracks, London, on 7 November 1873, the second son of Colonel the Honourable Richard Southwell George Stapleton-Cotton (1849–1925), of Plas Llwynon, Anglesey, and his wife, the Honourable Jane Charlotte Methuen, daughter of Frederick Henry Paul Methuen, second Baron Methuen.[1] His father was the younger son of the second Viscount Combermere and had been the Inspector-General of Police in Guiana from 1889 to 1891, was an officer in the Wiltshire Regiment, having served in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and in Bechuanaland in 1885, and served as a Justice of the Peace for Shropshire and Cheshire.[2]

In 1910, he married Olive Harriet Cotton-Jodrell,[3] a daughter of Sir Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell, of Reaseheath and Yeardsley, Cheshire, 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

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 Royal Victorian Order (MVO).[25] He was also appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).[26] From 1928 to 1932, Stapleton-Cotton served as Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod, and then as Registrar and Secretary of the Order of the Bath from 1932 to 1948; in the latter capacity, he attended 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

  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

Bibliography

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1928–1932 		Succeeded by
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