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About Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis
Portrait of Cornwallis (circa 1705-1715), by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis PC was a British politician.
He was the son of Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis (c. 1655 – 1693) and Elizabeth Fox (c. 1654 – 1680/81). On 29 April 1693 he succeeded his father as Baron Cornwallis.
Between 1695 and 1698, he sat as Member of Parliament for Eye, as a Whig. He held the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Suffolk between 1698 and 1703, and the office of Joint Postmaster-General between 1715 and 1721. The last two years of his life, from 1721 to January 1721/22 he held the office of Paymaster of the Forces in the Cabinet of Walpole and Townshend.
A grandson of Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis, he married Lady Charlotte Butler, daughter of Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, on 6 June 1699. They had 10 children:
Charles Stephen Charlotte (1704–?) John (1705–1768) Richard (1708–1741) Elizabeth (1709–?) Mary (1711–?) Edward and Frederick Henry (1715–?) He was the grandfather of Charles, William, and James Cornwallis; the great-grandfather of Charles Cornwallis; the 2nd great-grandfather of James Mann; the 3rd great-grandfather of Fiennes Cornwallis; the 4th great-grandfather of Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis; the 5th great-grandfather of Wykeham Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis; and the 6th great-grandfather of Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis.
Lebenslinie von Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis
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1675
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1700 |
29 März 1700
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St. Martin in the Fields, Covent (Convent) Garden, Westminster, Middlesex, England
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16 Oktober 1701
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23 Dezember 1703
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1706 |
23 Dezember 1706
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17 Oktober 1708
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5 März 1713
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1713
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1721 |
20 Januar 1721
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