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 CORNWALL 453 1892, DUKE OF YORK, EARL OF INVERNESS, and BARON KILLARNEY.(^) On the accession of his father, Edward VII, to the throne, he became DUKE OF CORNWALL. On 6 May 19 10 he ascended the throne as George V, whereby all his honours merged in the Crown. See fuller particulars under York, Dukedom of.] CORNWALLIS AND CORNWALLIS OF EYE BARONY. I. Frederick. Cornwallis, a yr. s. of Sir William C, of Brome, Suffolk, by his 2nd wife, Jane, da. of Hercules I. 1661. Mewtas, was b. Nov. 1610; sue. his elder br. (of the half- blood) Thomas C. in the family estates in 1626, was cr. a Baronet, 4 May 1627, and was knighted i Dec. 1630; M.P. for Eye Mar. to May, and Oct. 1640, till " disabled" 23 Sep. 1642, and for Ipswich Oct. to Dec. 1660. He distinguished himself against the rebels in the civil war, particularly 30 June 1644, in the fight at Cropredy. He followed the King into exile and, returning with him, was Treasurer ot the Household, 30 May 1660 till his death; P. C. 6 July 1660. On 20 Apr. 1 661, he was cr. BARON CORNWALLIS OF EYE, Suffolk.C) He m., istly, about 1630, Elizabethjda. of Sir John Ash burn HAM, otAshburnham, Sussex, by Elizabeth, 5U0 jure Baroness Cramond [S.]. She d. Jan. or Feb. 1643/4, ^^ Oxford, and was bur. in Ch. Ch. Cathedral there. (') He m., 2ndly, Elizabeth, sister (of the half-blood) of William, Baron Crofts of Saxham, da. of Sir Henry Crofts, of Saxham, Suffolk, by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard Wortley, of Wortley, co. York. He J. suddenly, of apoplexy, 7 or 3 1 Jan. 166 1/2, and was i^«r. at Brome, Suffolk, aged 51. M.I. Admon. (now lost) as "of CO. Midx.," Feb. i66i/2.('^) His widow, who was living 10 Dec. 1667, d. s.p.m.s., at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. Admon. 15 Dec. 1674. II. 1662. 2. Charles (Cornwallis), Baron Cornwallis OF Eve, s. and h. by ist wife; bap. 19 Apr. 1632, at Culford, Suffolk; M.P. for Eye, 1660-62; Gent, of the Privy Chamber, 1660; Sur- veyor of the Customs, 1661 ; K.B., at the Coronation of Charles II, 23 Apr. 1 66 1. He m. Margaret, da. of Sir Thomas Playsted, of Arlington, Sussex. She d. 6, and was bur. 8 Mar. 1668/9, at Culford, afsd. M.I. He d. at St. Dunstan's-in-the-East, London, 13, and was bur. 17 Apr. 1673, at Culford, aged 41. Admon. 6 May 1673 and 21 July 1686. (*) See note "a" on preceding page. (•>) See an account of this and other creations, ante, p. 264, note "d," iub " Clarendon." (') Her husband was then attending the Oxford Parliament. V.G. (<*) " A man of so cheerful a spirit that no sorrow came next his heart, and of so resolved a mind, that no fear came into his thoughts." {Lloyd's Characters).