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). | |