Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis PC (28 December 1655 – 29 April 1698)[1] was a British politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty and Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, in which capacity he personally served as Colonel of the Suffolk Militia Horse in 1692.[2] He succeeded his father Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis as Baron Cornwallis in 1673. On 27 December that year, at Westminster Abbey, he married Elizabeth Fox (d. 28 February 1681 in Tunbridge Wells), daughter of Sir Stephen Fox. Their son Charles succeeded him as 4th Baron Cornwallis. After Elizabeth's death, he married Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, widow of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth.
References
- ^ Cokayne, George (1910). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant. London : The St. Catherine Press, ltd. p. 366. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- ^ Col. George Jackson Hay, An Epitomized History of the Militia (The Constitutional Force), London: United Service Gazette, 1905/Ray Westlake Military Books, 1987, ISBN 0-9508530-7-0/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78331-171-2, p 128.
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Preceded by | First Lord of the Admiralty 1692–1693 | Succeeded by |
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Preceded by | Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk 1689–1698 | Succeeded by |
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Preceded by | Baron Cornwallis 1673–1698 | Succeeded by |
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