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Capt. Hon. Henry Cornwallis (10 September 1740 – 1761) Bishop James Cornwallis, 4th Earl Cornwallis; Adm. Sir William Cornwallis, RN (1744–1819) Lady Elizabeth Cornwallis (d. 20 March 1796), married Bowen Southwell in July 1753; Lady Charlotte Cornwallis (d. 11 March 1794), married 8 April 1756 Bishop Spencer Madan and had issue.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis; Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis; Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis; Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis; Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis; Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis
Earl Cornwallis was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1753 for Charles Cornwallis, 5th Baron Cornwallis. The second Earl was created Marquess Cornwallis but this title became extinct upon the death of the second marquessate in 1823, while the earldom and its subsidiary titles became extinct in 1852 (the barony was recreated in ...
The title of Earl of Cornwall was created several times in the Peerage of England before 1337, when it was superseded by the title Duke of Cornwall, ...
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG, PC (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In the United States and the United Kingdom, he is best known as one of the leading British general officers in the American War of Independence .
Portrait of Lord Cornwallis is a 1783 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough depicting the British general Charles, Earl Cornwallis. [ 1 ] Cornwallis had recently served in the American War of Independence where he commanded British and Loyalist American forces during the Southern Campaign.
Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel was a competitor for old paintings. It is not clear from the letters if any old portraits changed hands. [7] Jane's son by her first marriage, Frederick Cornwallis, married Elizabeth Ashburnham, daughter of Sir John Ashburnham and Elizabeth Villiers, at court in January 1631. His mother did not attend because ...
Cornwallis married, first, Lucy Neville, daughter of John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer and Lucy Somerset. After her death, he married Jane Mewtas. [1] She was a lady in waiting to Anne of Denmark and as a wedding gift the queen gave her a jewel studded with diamonds made by George Heriot. [4] The Cornwallis family lived at Brome Hall near Diss in ...