Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis

Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis (14 March 1610/1 – January 1662) was an English peer, MP and Privy Counsellor. He was Treasurer of the Household 1660–1662. He was the eldest surviving son of Sir William Cornwallis of Brome, Suffolk, and his second wife, Jane. After his father's death, his mother married Sir Nathaniel Bacon.

The Lord Cornwallis
Treasurer of the Household
In office
1660–1662
Preceded byViscount Savile
Succeeded byViscount Fitzhardinge
Privy Counsellor
In office
1660–1662
Personal details
Born1610
DiedJanuary 1662
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Family

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Cornwallis married twice.

He married firstly: Elizabeth Ashburnham, the daughter of Sir John Ashburnham (of Ashburnham, Sussex) and Elizabeth Richardson, 1st Lady Cramond, with 3 sons and a daughter, of whom only Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis survived him.

After the wedding, in January 1631, King Charles I, Henrietta Maria and Susan Feilding, Countess of Denbigh wrote to congratulate his mother Jane, Lady Cornwallis Bacon, and ask her to forgive him for his disobedience and return him to her favour. Denbigh said Ashburnham was her cousin "though her family be unfortunate".[1]

Elizabeth died c. February 1643.

He married secondly: Elizabeth Crofts, daughter of Sir Henry Crofts (of Little Saxham), with whom he had a daughter.

Death and legacy

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In January 1662, Cornwallis died suddenly of apoplexy. Samuel Pepys recorded his death in the famous Diary, and described him as a "bold, profane-talking man". Another contemporary source described him as "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".[2]

References

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  1. ^ Richard Griffin Baron Braybrooke, The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis; 1613-1644 (London, 1842), pp. 234-8: Joanna Moody, The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon, 1613-1644 (2003), p. 54.
  2. ^ The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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Parliament of England
Preceded by
No Parliament
Member of Parliament for Eye
March 1640 – September 1642
With: Sir Roger North
Succeeded by
Morris Barrow and
Sir Roger North
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Ipswich
1660–1660
With: Francis Bacon
Succeeded by
Political offices
Vacant
during English Republic
Title last held by
Viscount Savile
Treasurer of the Household
1660 – January 1662
Succeeded by
Peerage of England
New creation Baron Cornwallis
1661 – January 1662
Succeeded by
Baronetage of England
New creation Baronet
1627 – January 1662
Succeeded by