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 454 CORNWALLIS III. 1673. 3. Charles(Cornwallis),Baron CoRNWALLisoF Eye, 3rd, but 1st surv. s. and h., bap. 28 Dec. 1655 at Culford; served in the King's troop of Horse Guards, 1673; took his seat 15 Feb. 1676. He was tried by his peers, 30 June 1676, for manslaughter, and found not guilty by 21 to 5.(^) Said to have been Joint Registrar of the Court of Chancery, i676;('') Lord Lieut, of Suffolk, 1689 till his death; P.C. i Mar. 169 1/2; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1692-93; High Steward of Ipswich, 1692. He was a Whig. He w., istly, 27 Dec. 1673, at Westm. Abbey, Elizabeth, sister of the half-blood of Stephen, ist Earl of Ilchester, ist da. of Sir Stephen Fox,(') by his ist wife, Elizabeth, da. of William Whittle, of co. Lancaster. She d. at Tunbridge Wells, 28 Feb., and was bur. 5 Mar. 1 680/1, at Brome, aged 25. M.I. He w., 2ndly, 6 May 1688, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Anne, suo jure Duchess OF BuccLEUCH [S.], widow of James, Duk.e of Monmouth. He d. of fever, 29 Apr., and was bur. 5 May 1 698, at Brome, aged 42. Will dat. 9 Oct. 1 697, pr. 5 Aug. 1 698, by his son Charles. His widow i^. 6 Feb. 173 1/2, in her 8 ist year, and was bur. at Dalkeith. Will dat. 16 Mar. 1723, pr. Feb. 1731/2. IV. 1698. 4. Charles (Cornwallis), Baron Cornwallis of Eye, 1st s. and h. by ist wife; b. 1675; served in the campaigns in Flanders; M.P. (Whig) for Eye, 1695-98; took his seat in the House of Lords, 11 May 1698; Lord Lieut, of Suffolk, 1 698-1 703; Joint Postmaster Gen. 1 7 1 5-2 1 ; cr. LL.D., Cambridge, 1 6 Oct. 1 7 1 7 ; P.C. 1 1 Nov. 1721 ; Paymaster Gen. of the Forces 1721 till his death; Recorder of Eye, ^c. He m., 6 June 1699, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields (lie. Fac. Office), Charlotte (then aged 20), only surv. da. and h. of Richard (Butler), Earl of Arran [I.], by his 2nd wife, Dorothy, da. of John Ferrers. He d. "at i in the morning," 20 Jan. 172 1/2, in his 47th year, in New Bond Str., of gout in the stomach, and was bur. at Culford. Will pr. Feb. 1 72 1 /2.('') His widow d. 8 Aug. 1725, at Tunbridge. Will pr. Sep. 1725. (*) The facts were that he had been, when drunk, in the company of, and possibly abetting, a Mr. Gerard, who had killed a boy named Robert Clerk, by whom he conceived himself to have been insulted. (See State Trials, vol. vii, p. 143). "He was a young spendthrift, was very extravagant, loved gaming, lost as much as anyone would trust him, but was not quite so ready at paying." (Gramont, Memoirs, cap. ix). He is said to have been " in the especial favour of King William." V.G. (*) So in 1st edit., but probably he only had the reversion of the office, which never fell to him, as the holder, the Earl of Dover, surv. him. His name does not appear as Joint Registrar in any edition of Chamberlayne's Anglie PoUtia. V.G. {^) " He [Sir Stephen Fox] has married his eldest daughter to my Lord Corn- wallis, and gave her ^^i 2,000, and restored that intangled family besides." (Evelyn's Diary, 6 Se^p. 1680). V.G. (d) " A gentleman of sweet disposition, a great lover of the Constitution, and well esteemed in his native county of Suffolk; inclining to fat, fair complexion." {Mackys Characters). In a letter of the Duchess of Richmond, dat. 31 Jan. 1 72 1/2 {a Duke and his Friends, by the Earl of March, vol. i, p. 57), it is stated that he "killed himself with strong waters, which none suspected him for." V.G.