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 CORNWALLIS. 381 another, tho' with great loss, at Guildford, 15 Mar. 1781. His plan was now for a general invasion of Virginia, but lining expressly ordered by Sir Henry Clinton to remain at Yorktown (an exposed post), he and his 4,000 men were surrounded and outnumbered by the American and French troops, and on 19 Oct. 1781, obliged to capitulate. From Aug. to Se[>. 17S5, he wa; Euvoy Extraordinary to Frederick the Great. In 1786, he was made Governoii Gkn. of Bengal, and Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, which office he held for seven years, during which he finally broke the power and prestige of the Mysore dynasty, aud by the siege of Seringapatain, Feb. 1792, compelled the Sultan Tippoo (who in 1790 had attacked one of the English allies) to surrender half his territory and to pay £3,600,000. He also effected many useful reforms in the East Indian administration. While absent he was el. K.G. i June 1786 (the ensigns being delivered to him at Calcutta, 4 March 1787), aud inst 29 May 1801. On 8 Oct 1792, he was er. MARQUESS CORNWALLIS. Spec. Commissioner to the allied armies in Flanders, 1794 ; Master Geu. of the Ordnance, 1795-1801. From June 1798 to May 1801, he was Lord Lieut, ok Ireland, and Commander-in-Chief, finally suppressing the rebellion of 1798 and assisting in the carrying of the act of Union. In Sep. 1801, he was sent as Plenipotentiary to Amiens, signing the treaty there (an unfavourable one for England) on 27 March 1802. Early in 1805 he was, for the 2ud time, made Gov. Gen. ok Bengal and Com. -in-Chief, with the intention of putting an end to the "ruinous warfare," (*} but, soon after landing, his own death took place. He m.. 14 July 1768, in Stratton Street, Piccadilly, .St. Geo. Han. So,., Jemima Tulikens, sister of Arnoldus Jones, afterwards Skklton, of Branthwaite, Cumberland, da. of James Jones, sometime Capt of the 3rd Guards, by Mary his wife, formerly Mary Tulikens, spinster. She d. at Culford Hall, 14 July 1779, and was bur. 16th at Culford. He d. at Ghazipore, in the province of Benares, East Indies, 5 Oct. 1805, where a mausoleum was erected over his remains. M.I. at St. Paul's, London. Will [jr. May 1806. Marquessate, 2, 3 and 7. Charles (Cornwall's), Marquess j r CoitNWALUs, Earl Cohnwalus, &c, only s.'and h., 6. 19 Oct. 1774 at Culford; ed. at Eton and at St. John's Coll., Cambridge; M.A. (as Viscount Brone) 1795; M.P. for Eye, 1795; for Suffolk, 1796—1805 ; Master of the 1805. Buckhouuds and Ranger of Swinley Lodge in Windsor forest, 1807. He m. 17 April 1797, at her Father's house iu Piccadilly, St. Geo., Han. Sq., Louisa, 4th da. of Alexander (Gordon), 4th Duke ok Gordon [S,] by his 1st wife, Jane, da. of Sir William Maxwell, Bart. He d. s.p.m. 9 Aug. 1823, in Old Burlington street, Midx., aged 49, aud was bur. at Culford, when the Marquessate of Comwallis became extinct. Will dat. 24 July aud pr. 11 Sep. 1823. His widow, who was b. 27 Dec. 1776 at Gordon Castle, co. Banff, became, 28 May 1836, coheir to her br. George, 5th Duke ok Gordo* [S.] aud d. 5 Dec. 1850 in her 74tU year at Park Crescent, Midx., and was bur. at Culford. Will pr. Dee. 1850.(b) Earldom, III. Barony, VII. Earldom, IV, £ mid 8. James (Cornwallis), Earl Corn- wallis, Viscount Buojie, Lord Bishop ok Lichkield and Covbntby, Baron Cornwallis ok Eye, uncle and h. male, -n 1823. being 2nd surv.'s. of Charles, the 1st Earl. He was b. in Dover .Barony. Street, 25 Feb. '1742/3, and bap at St. James, Westm. ; ed. VIII at Eton and atCh. Ch. Oxford ; B. A., 1763; Fellow of Merton Coll. and M.A., 1766 ; D.C.L., 1775. He was sometime a Student of Law at the Temple, but, taking holy orders became Chaplain to Lord Towushend, when Viceroy of Ireland. Rector of Ickham, ( a ) See an appreciative notice of him by H. M. Stephens, in Stephen's "Nat, Biography." As to his love of " military glory," see vol. i, p. 252, note " a," sub. " Bessborough." ( b ) All of her five daughters survived her, inheriting Brome Hall and the other family estates in Suffolk Of these two d. unm, whilo (1) Jane, Baroness Braybrooke, d. 23 Sep. 1856, aged 57 ; (2) Jemima, Countess of St. Germans, d. 2 July 1856, aged 53 ; and (3) Lady Mary Ross (widow of Charles Ross, M.P., who a'. March 22 1860), d. 12 Aug. 1872, aged 57, all of them leaving issue.