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, and his second wife,

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. After his father's death, his mother married Sir Nathaniel Bacon.

Family

Cornwallis married twice. He married firstly: Elizabeth Ashburnham, the daughter of Sir John Ashburnham (of Ashburnham,

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) and

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, with 3 sons and a daughter, of whom only

Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis of Eye (1632 – 13 April 1673) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1662 when he inherited the peerage as Baron Cornwallis. Early years Cornwallis was ...

survived him. After the wedding, in January 1631, King Charles I,

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and

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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". Elizabeth died c. February 1643. He married secondly: Elizabeth Crofts, daughter of Sir

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(of

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), with whom he had a daughter.

Death and legacy

In January 1662, Cornwallis died suddenly of apoplexy.

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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".The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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