Michael Stapleton-Cotton, 5th Viscount Combermere

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 College, 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, taking B.D. and M.Th. degrees in Theology. He was a lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies in the Department of Extra-Mural Studies at the University of London from 1972–1994, and Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London from 1988-1994. He sat in the House of Lords as a Crossbencher. His son Thomas Stapleton-Cotton, 6th Viscount Combermere now holds the peerage.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Francis Stapleton-Cotton	Viscount Combermere 1969–2000	Succeeded by Thomas Stapleton-Cotton

See also

• Viscount Combermere

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Name	Combermere, Michael Stapleton-Cotton, 5th Viscount
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Date of birth	8 August 1929
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Date of death	3 November 2000
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