List of Famous people with last name Cornwallis

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis

First Name Charles
Last Name Cornwallis
Died on October 5, 1805

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis,, styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as the Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army general and official. In the United States and the United Kingdom he is best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence. His surrender in 1781 to a combined American and French force at the Siege of Yorktown ended significant hostilities in North America. He later served as a civil and military governor in Ireland, where he helped bring about the Act of Union; and in India, where he helped enact the Cornwallis Code and the Permanent Settlement.

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Edward Cornwallis

First Name Edward
Last Name Cornwallis
Born on March 5, 1713
Died on January 14, 1776 (aged 62)

Edward Cornwallis was a British career military officer and was a member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family, who reached the rank of Lieutenant General. After Cornwallis fought in Scotland, putting down the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, he was appointed Groom of the Chamber for King George II. He was then made Governor of Nova Scotia (1749–1752), one of the colonies in North America, and assigned to establish the new town of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Later Cornwallis returned to London, where he was elected as MP for Westminster and married the niece of Robert Walpole, Great Britain's first Prime Minister. Cornwallis was next appointed as Governor of Gibraltar.

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Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis

First Name Fiennes
Last Name Cornwallis
Born on May 27, 1864
Died on September 26, 1935 (aged 71)

Colonel Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis, was a British Conservative politician.

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Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis

First Name Fiennes
Last Name Cornwallis
Born on June 29, 1921
Died on March 6, 2010 (aged 88)

Fiennes Neil Wykeham Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, OBE, DL was a British peer. He was the younger child, and the only son, of Wykeham Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis and Cecily Etha Mary. He had an elder sister, Rosamond Patricia Susan Anne Cornwallis.

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Sir William Cornwallis

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Oswald Cornwallis

First Name Oswald
Last Name Cornwallis
Born on March 16, 1894
Died on January 28, 1974 (aged 79)

Oswald Wykeham Cornwallis was an English Royal Navy officer and amateur cricketer. He was born in 1894 at Linton Park in Kent, the third son of Mabel and Fiennes Cornwallis. His father was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone and would later become a peer. He served in both the First and Second World Wars.

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Vere Mabel Cornwallis

First Name Vere
Last Name Cornwallis
Born on January 1, 1889
Died on October 8, 1964 (aged 75)
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Sir Thomas Cornwallis

First Name Sir
Died on December 24, 1604
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Venetia Mabel Cornwallis

First Name Venetia
Born on November 8, 1928 (age 95)
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Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis

First Name Charles
Last Name Cornwallis
Born on April 19, 1632
Died on April 13, 1673 (aged 40)

Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis of Eye was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1662 when he inherited the peerage as Baron Cornwallis.

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