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1. Charles; 2. James; 3. Stephen; 4. John; 5. Richard;

6. Edward; 7. Frederick; 8. William.

21. Charlotte; 2. Elizabeth; 3. Mary.

XXXVIII.

Charles Cornwallis,

LORD CORNWALLIS.

F this nobleman we have been enabled to collect no information beyond the very scanty notices afforded him by Collins in his peerage and

Noble in his continuation of Granger.

Charles, Lord Cornwallis, and eldest son of the third earl of that name, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Stephen Fox, was born about 1674. He served at an early age under King William, in the campaigns in Flanders, and was chosen, while a commoner, to represent in Parliament the borough of Eye, in Suffolk.

In May, 1698, his lordship took his seat in the House of Peers. The following year he married Lady Charlotte Butler, daughter of Richard, Earl of Anan, by whom he had eight sons' and three daughters. He also succeeded his father as Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Suffolk ;