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Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis PC (1675 – 20 January 1721/22) was a British politician. Background. He was the son of Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis (c. 1655 – 1693) and Elizabeth Fox (c. 1654 – 1680/81). On 29 April 1693 he succeeded his father as Baron Cornwallis . Political career.
Biography. Cornwallis was brought up in the household of his grandfather Sir Stephen Fox, who paid for his education (to the tune of at least £4,000) and tried to safeguard his inheritance from the effects of his father’s extravagance.
26 de abr. de 2022 · Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis PC was a British politician. He was the son of Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis (c. 1655 – 1693) and Elizabeth Fox (c. 1654 – 1680/81). On 29 April 1693 he succeeded his father as Baron Cornwallis. Between 1695 and 1698, he sat as Member of Parliament for Eye, as a Whig.
- 1675
- Jason Scott Wills
- 20 Januar 1721 (45-46)
- 26. April 2022
He was the son of Fiennes Cornwallis (who had been born Fiennes Wykeham-Martin but had assumed the surname of Cornwallis by Royal licence in 1859), son of Charles Wykeham-Martin and Lady Jemima Isabella, daughter of James Mann, 5th Earl Cornwallis.
Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron. / Search the collection. 1 of 253523 objects; After Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron. 1732. RCIN 652979.
The whig son of the extravagant 3rd Baron Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis was brought up by his plutocrat grandfather Sir Stephen Fox, who also provided him with a home and a bride and helped him, once he had inherited his father’s title, to financial solvency.
Whig politician; MP for Eye and Postmaster-General Charles Cornwallis entered Parliament in 1695. Like his fellow members of the Kit-Cat Club, he favoured the Whig party, supporters of the Revolution of 1689 and the power of parliament against absolutist monarchy.
