Charles Cornwallis, second marquess Cornwallis

(1774-1823)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Cornwallis, Charles (1774-1823) 2nd Marquess Cornwallis DNB: Cornwallis, Charles, second Marquess Cornwallis (1774-1823), landowner LBT ID: LdCornw2	B/BAP: 1774-10-19 DIED: 1823-08-09
SOURCES: DNB; thePeerage.com
Son of the first marquess whom he succeeded in 1805; educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge, he was a Tory MP for Eye (1795-6), and for Suffolk (1796-1805).
REFERENCES TO Charles Cornwallis, second marquess Cornwallis: Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD.,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: ¶ 7