Charles Cornwallis, first earl Cornwallis

(1700-1762)

LBT ID: LdCornw1a	B/BAP: 1700-03-29 DIED: 1762-06-23
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The son of Charles Cornwallis, fourth Baron Cornwallis; he was Privy Counsellor (1740) and was father of the General Cornwallis who surrendered at Yorktown.
REFERENCES TO Charles Cornwallis, first earl Cornwallis: Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Appendix vol II Found 1: ¶ 1