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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
British general, colonial official, diplomat (1738–1805)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 31 December 1738, 1738
- Died
- 5 October 1805, 1805
- Conflict
- American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary Wars, Anglo-Mysore wars, Seven Years' War, Third Anglo-Mysore War, Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Place of birth
- Grosvenor Square
- Place of death
- Ghazipur
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Charles
- Family name
- Cornwallis
- Mother
- Elizabeth Townshend
- Occupation
- diplomat, official, military officer, politician, army officer
- Position held
- Member of Parliament of Great Britain, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Constable of the Tower, Constable of the Tower, member of the 11th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain, Lord Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets, Lord Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets, Governor-General of India, Master-General of the Ordnance
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Awards
- Knight of the Garter
- cause of death
- fever
- depicted by
- Charles Cornwallis (1738–1805), Lord Brome, 1st Marquis Cornwallis, Charles, Second Earl and First Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Svensk uppslagsbok, Nordisk familjebok, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work
- educated at
- Eton College, Clare College, Military Academy of Modena
- member of political party
- Whigs
- military branch
- British Army
- military, police or special rank
- major general, general
- name in native language
- Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
- noble title
- Marquess Cornwallis
- participant in
- Irish Rebellion of 1798
- social classification
- noble
- work location
- London
- writing language
- English
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Subject of
- Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
- Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805) (DNB00)
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Cornwallis, Charles, Earl
- The New Student's Reference Work/Cornwallis, Charles, Marquis
- Charles, Second Earl and First Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805)
- Charles, Marquis Cornwallis OB. 1805
- Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805), commanding general of British forces in the southern campaign in the American Revolution
- Charles Cornwallis, Marquess, Viceroy of Ireland
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