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 CORNWALLIS MARQUESSATE. II. EARLDOM. III. BARONY. VII. 457 1805. 2, 3 and 7. Charles (Cornwallis), Marquess Cornwallis, Earl Corn- wallis, ^c, only s. and h., i;. 19 Oct. 1774, at Culford; ed. at Eton and at St. John's Coll. Cambridge ;(*) M.A. (as Viscount Brome) 1795; M.P. (Tory) for Eye, 1795-96; for Suffolk, 1 796-1 805; Master of the Buckhounds 1807 till his death. He m., 17 Apr. 1797, at her father's house in Piccadilly, St. Geo., Han. Sq., Louisa, 4th da. of Alexander (Gordon), 4th Duke of Gordon [S.], by his 1st wife, Jane, da. of Sir William Maxwell, Bart.^") He d. s.p.m., 9 Aug.(°) 1823, in Old Burlington Str., Midx., aged 49, and was i?ur. at Culford, when the Marquessate of Cornwallis became extinct. Will dat. 24 July, pr. II Sep. 1823. His widow, who was ^. 27 Dec. 1776, at Gordon Castle, CO. Banff, became, 28 May 1836, coh. to her br. George, 5th Duke OF Gordon [S.]. She d. in her 74th year, at Park Crescent, Midx., 5, and was /?ur. 12 Dec. 1850, at Culford. Will pr. Dec. i850.() EARLDOM IV. BARONY. VIII. 4 and 8. James (Cornwallis), Earl Corn- wallis, Viscount Brome, Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, Baron Cornwallis 1823. OF Eye, uncle and h. male, being 2nd surv. s. of Charles, the ist Earl. He was l>. in Dover Str., 25 Feb. 1742/3, and l>iip. at St. James's, Westm.; ed. at Eton, and at Ch. Ch. Oxford, B.A. 1763, Fellow of Merton Coll. and M.A. i766;() D.C.L. 1775. He was sometime a Student of Law at the Temple, but, taking holy orders, became Chaplain to Lord Townshend, when Viceroy of Ireland. Rector of Ickham, Kent, 1769-73; Rector of Adisham-with-Staple, Kent, 1770-81; Prebend of Westminster, 1770-75; Rector of Newington, Oxon, 1770; Vicar of Wrotham, Kent, 1771-85; Rector of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, (*) " Lord Brome is, I assure you, everything you can wish. He has left Eton, and is just now in town to prepare for his journey to Yverdun, where, by all accounts, he is likely to pass some time to great advantage, in learning French. He grows both stout and tall." (Letter of Mrs. C. Cornwallis, 13 Feb. 1792). V.G. C") Having expressed to the Duchess some hesitation about marrying her daughter on account of supposed insanity in the Gordon family, he received from her the gratifying assurance that there was not a drop of Gordon blood in Louisa! V.G. («) Not 16 Aug. as in Diet. Nat. Biog. V.G. {^) All of her five daughters survived her, inheriting Brome Hall and the other family estates in Suffolk. Of these two d. unm., while (i) Jane, Baroness Bray- brooke, 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 d. 22 Mar. i860), d. 12 Aug. 1872, aged 57, all of them leaving issue. (•) Not 1769 as in Diet. Nat. Biog. V.G. 58