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 entitled A Pair of Spectacles for Short-sighted Politicians, in support of the Rockingham Ministry, and obtained for himself the office of Secretary to the Treasury, which he held till 1782. In the following year he became a Lord of the Treasury in the Cabinet of North and Fox. During his Parliamentary career he sat for Rochester (1765), Grampound (1768), Saltash (1774), and Richmond (1786), and was regarded as a high authority on all financial questions. He was made a Privy Councillor inl1796. He died 30 July, 1801.

Some of his letters on public affairs have been published, and he was the author of The State of Proceedings in the House of Commons on the Petition of the Duke of Athol relating to the Isle of Man (1769). He also wrote some Stanzas, addressed to the Rev. William Mason.

Second son of Sir Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire. There is no record of his admission, but he was Reader at the Inn in 1551. He was made a Serjeant in 1559, and a Judge of the Queen's Bench the same year, a position he held till his death in 1566.

Admitted 20 February, 1610-11.

Second son of Sir Thomas Cornwallis. At the time of his admission he was himself a knight (having received that dignity in 1603) and held the office of "Treasurer to Prince Henry." In 1605 he was Ambassador to Spain. In 1613 he was sent to Ireland to investigate Irish grievances, but, being suspected of fanning parliamentary opposition to the King, was arrested and imprisoned the following year. After his release he lived in retirement, and died in Staffordshire 2l Dec. 1629.

He was the author of A Discourse of the most illustrious Prince Henry, late Prince of Wales, printed 1641, and to be found in Somers' Tracts (vol. ii.), and the Harleian Miscellany (vol. iv.).

Admitted 23 December, 1679.

Fourth son of Charles, Lord Cornwallis, Baron of Eye, co. Suffolk, where he was born 31 July, 1663. He never practised law, but obtained a commission in the Guards. He is said to have been the projector of the scheme of Parliamentary Lotteries in 1709, the foundation of all subsequent State Lotteries, till their prohibition in 1824. He remained a Commissioner of Lotteries up to his death, 29 Dec. 1731.

Admitted 18 October, 1771.

Son and heir of Edward Corry of Newry, co. Down. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1776 he was elected M.P. for Newry in place of his father, and soon became distinguished as a politician. He became a warm supporter of the Government, and was made Surveyor-General in 1788, and a Commissioner of the Revenue the following year. He became the leading advocate of the Union in opposition to Grattan, their personal animosity