Colonel Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis CBE, TD, JP, DL,(27 May 1864 – 26 September 1935), was a British

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 Conservative

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 politician.

Early life

Lord Cornwallis was born 27 May 1864 at Chalcombe Priory, Banbury

Banbury

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, Oxfordshire

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, England

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. the eldest son of Major Fiennes Cornwallis

and Harriet Elizabeth (née Mott).

Had one brother and two sisters

and was educated at Eton College

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.

Political career

He was elected to the House of Commons

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 as Member of Parliament

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 for Maidstone

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 in 1888, a seat he held until 1895 and again from 1898 to 1900. He was also Chairman of the Kent County Council

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 between 1910 and 1930. In 1927 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cornwallis, of Linton

Linton, Kent

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 in the County of Kent

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, where his country house, Linton Park

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, was situated.

Family life

Lord Cornwallis married Mabel Leigh, daughter of Oswald Peter Leigh, in 1886. They had seven children, three sons and four daughters.

Their eldest son Lieutenant Fiennes Wykeham Mann Cornwallis was killed in Ireland

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 in May 1921 during the Irish War of Independence

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 whilst off-duty by the IRA

Lord Cornwallis died on September 1935, aged 71, and was succeeded in the barony by his second son Wykeham Stanley Cornwallis. Lady Cornwallis died in 1957.

Freemasonry

Was an emanate Freemason and was Provincial Grand master of Kent and a Past Grand Warden in the United Grand Lodge of England.
Stanley Wykeham Lodge 6599 was named for him.