Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis PC (28 December 1655 – 29 April 1698) was a British politician who served as

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and Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, in which capacity he personally served as

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of the Suffolk Militia Horse in 1692. Col. George Jackson Hay
''An Epitomized History of the Militia (The Constitutional Force)''
London: United Service Gazette, 1905/Ray Westlake Military Books, 1987, /Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2015, , p 128. He succeeded his father Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis as Baron Cornwallis in 1673. On 27 December that year, at

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, he married Elizabeth Fox (d. 28 February 1681 in

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), daughter of Sir

Stephen Fox Sir Stephen Fox (27 March 1627 – 28 October 1716) of Farley in Wiltshire, of Redlynch Park in Somerset, of Chiswick, Middlesex and of Whitehall, was a royal administrator and courtier to King Charles II, and a politician, who rose from h ...

. Their son

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succeeded him as 4th Baron Cornwallis. After Elizabeth's death, he married Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, widow of

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, (9 April 1649 – 15 July 1685) was an English nobleman and military officer. Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the eldest ill ...

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1655 births 1698 deaths 17th-century English nobility Lord-lieutenants of Suffolk Lords of the Admiralty Members of the Privy Council of England

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