Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis
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The Lord Cornwallis | |
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Treasurer of the Household | |
In office 1660–1662 | |
Preceded by | Viscount Savile |
Succeeded by | Viscount Fitzhardinge |
Privy Counsellor | |
In office 1660–1662 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1610 |
Died | January 1662 |
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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.
He 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".
Family
He married twice. His first wife, Elizabeth Ashburnham, was the daughter of Sir John Ashburnham (of Ashburnham and Penhurst, Sussex) and Elizabeth Richardson, 1st Lady Cramond.
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]
They had three sons (of which only one, Charles, outlived him), and a daughter. After her death c. February 1643, he married Elizabeth Crofts, daughter of Sir Henry Crofts (of Little Saxham), with whom he had a daughter.
He was the father of Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis.
References
- ^ 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.
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