Charles Cornwallis, first marquess Cornwallis

(1738-1805)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805 NRA: Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805) 1st Marquess Cornwallis, General, statesman DNB: Cornwallis, Charles, first Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), governor-general of India and lord lieutenant of Ireland LBT ID: LdCornw1 VIAF ID: 20760091 LOC ID: n88148317	B/BAP: 1738-12-31 DIED: 1805-10-05
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; http://thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
The son of the first earl Cornwallis; after defeat at Yorktown he was governor general of India (1786) and lord lieutenant of Ireland (1798).
REFERENCES TO Charles Cornwallis, first marquess Cornwallis: Sir James Mackintosh to John Whishaw, 21 February 1806 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 2 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter XIII: 1806-40 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 4