Arthur Hill, 5th Marquess of Downshire
Arthur Wills Blundell Trumbull Sandys Roden Hill, 5th Marquess of Downshire( 24 December 1844 – 31 March 1874), was an Irish peer, styled Earl of Hillsborough until 1868.
He became Marquess of Downshire in 1868 on the death of his father.
He lived at the family seat of Easthampstead Park, within 5,000 acres in Berkshire, and Hillsborough Castle, within 115,000 acres in Hillsborough, County Down.
Arthur Hill was son to Arthur Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire( 1812 – 1868), known as the' Big Marquess', and the Hon. Caroline Frances Stapleton Cotton, the eldest daughter of Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere.
Hill's siblings were Lady Alice Maria Hill( 7 November 1842 – 25 February 1928), who married Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective, and Colonel Lord Arthur William Hill( 1846 – 1931).
Hill married Georgiana Elizabeth Balfour( died 12 January 1919), on 25 July 1870, daughter of Colonel John Balfour of Balbirnie( 1811–1895) and Lady Georgiana Isabel( Campbell) Balfour( died 3 December 1884).
Their only child was Arthur Wills John Wellington Trumbull Blundell
Hill who became the 6th Marquess of Downshire.
He was a captain in the Royal South Down Regiment of Militia from 1862, a cornet and lieutenant in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards from 1866, a cornet in the West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry and Deputy Lieutenant of County Down in 1872, and the Hereditary Constable of Hillsborough Fort.
Arthur Hill and his father were instrumental in major tree planting within the park of their Hillsborough Castle.
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport
Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, KB( 2 December 17262 May 1814) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, and the brother of Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood.
Arthur Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire
Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire KP( 6 August 1812 – 6 August 1868) was an Irish peer, styled Earl of Hillsborough until 1845.
The eldest son of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire, Hillsborough was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
He was commissioned an ensign in the Royal South Down Militia, of which his father was colonel, on 4 June, and was commissioned lieutenant- colonel in the same on 10 September.
He was appointed Sheriff of County Down for 1834.
From 1836 until 1845, he represented Down in Parliament, and was a justice of the peace for the county as well.
On 23 August 1837, he married Hon. Caroline Frances Stapleton Cotton, the eldest daughter of Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere.
They had four children:
He became Marquess of Downshire on 12 April 1845 on the death of his father, and was appointed to his father's Militia colonelcy on 30 July.
His English residence was Easthampstead Park in Berkshire, and he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of that county in 1852, and a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 24 May 1859.
He had Easthampstead Church rebuilt in 1867.
Tawiah M'carthy
Tawiah Ben M'Carthy is a Ghanaian- born Canadian actor and playwright.
He is best known for his 2012 play" Obaaberima", a one- man play about growing up gay in Ghana.
Eliza Carthy
Eliza Carthy, MBE( born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing fiddle.
She is the daughter of English folk musicians singer/ guitarist Martin Carthy and singer Norma Waterson.
Richard Stapleton-Cotton
Admiral Richard Greville Arthur Wellington Stapleton-Cotton (7 November 1873 – 5 January 1953) was a British officer of the Royal Navy.
Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet( 22 January 1570/ 1 – 6 May 1631) of Conington Hall in the parish of Conington in Huntingdonshire, England, was a Member of Parliament and an antiquarian who founded the Cotton library.
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, 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 and a Master of Theology degree.
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 but lost his seat in parliament in 1999 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.
Combermere died in November 2000, aged 71, and was succeeded by his son, Thomas Stapleton- Cotton, 6th Viscount Combermere.
He and his wife Pamela, daughter of Reverend Robert Gustavus Coulson, had three children:
Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, 2nd Viscount Combermere
Colonel Wellington Henry Stapleton- Cotton, 2nd Viscount Combermere( 24 November 1818 – 1 December 1891) was a British soldier and Conservative politician.
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere( 14 November 1773 – 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician.
As a junior officer he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in the Fourth Anglo- Mysore War and in the suppression of Robert Emmet's insurrection in 1803.
He commanded a cavalry brigade in Sir Arthur Wellesley's Army before being given overall command of the cavalry in the latter stages of the Peninsular War.
He went on to be Commander- in- Chief, Ireland and then Commander- in- Chief, India.
In the latter role he stormed Bharatpur—a fort which previously had been deemed impregnable.

Question: Are both Tawiah M'Carthy and Stapleton Cotton, 1St Viscount Combermere from the same country?
Answer: no