Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis

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Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis

(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

His grandfather was

Family

A grandson of Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis, he married Lady Charlotte Butler, daughter of Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, on 6 June 1699.^[1] They had 10 children:

• Charles
• Stephen
• Charlotte (1704–?)
• John (1705–1768)
• Richard (1708–1741)
• Elizabeth (1709–?)
• Mary (1711–?)
• Edward and Frederick
• Henry (1715–?)

He was the grandfather of Charles, William, and James Cornwallis; the great-grandfather of Charles Cornwallis; the 2nd great-grandfather of James Mann; the 3rd great-grandfather of Fiennes Cornwallis; the 4th great-grandfather of Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis; the 5th great-grandfather of Wykeham Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis; and the 6th great-grandfather of Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis.

Ancestry

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Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Henry Poley Thomas Davenant	Member of Parliament for Eye 1695–1698 With: Thomas Davenant 1690–1695 Sir Joseph Jekyll 1697–1710	Succeeded by Sir Joseph Jekyll Spencer Compton
Political offices
Preceded by Sir John Evelyn, Bt Sir Thomas Frankland, Bt	Postmaster-General 1715–1721 With: James Craggs the Elder	Succeeded by Edward Harrison Edward Carteret
Preceded by Robert Walpole	Paymaster of the Forces 1721– 1722	Succeeded by The Earl of Wilmington
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Lord Cornwallis	Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk 1698–1703	Succeeded by The Earl of Dysart
Peerage of England
Preceded by Charles Cornwallis	Baron Cornwallis 1698–1722	Succeeded by Charles Cornwallis