Frederick Cornwallis
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Frederick Cornwallis was a British clergy member who served as Archbishop of Canterbury after a career in the Church of England. He was born the seventh son of an aristocratic family.
Portrait by Nathaniel Dance-Holland
Wall plaque in the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth to Frederick Cornwallis, who was buried nearby
Edward Cornwallis
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Lieutenant-General Edward Cornwallis was a British Army officer and member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family. After Cornwallis fought in Scotland, putting down the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, he w
Frederick Cornwallis
…son of an aristocratic family. Cornwallis was born in London, England, the seventh son of Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis. His twin brother, Edward Cornwallis, was born sixth. Charles was educated at Eton College and graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge. He was ordained a priest in 1742 and became a…
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1756
Cornwallis built Governor's House (1749). (Province House was later also built on this site and it is furnished still with his Nova Scotia Council table.)
The table first used by Edward Cornwallis and the Nova Scotia Council (1749), The Red Chamber of Province House
Fort Edward, named after Edward Cornwallis