Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis

Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis Bt Kt (14 Mar 1610/1 – January 1662) was an English peer, MP and Privy Councillor.

He was the oldest surviving son of Sir William Cornwallis of Brome, Suffolk and his second wife Jane. He succeeded his half-brother Nicholas Bacon to the family estates in 1626.

He was created a baronet in 1627 and knighted in 1630. He was elected as M.P. for Eye in 1640 and 1642. A royalist, he fought during the English Civil War, and followed Charles II into exile. Upon Charles’s restoration in 1660, Cornwallis was made Treasurer of the Household and a Privy Councillor. He was M.P. for Ipswich from October to December 1660. ^[1]

He died shortly after his creation on 20 April 1661 as Baron Cornwallis of Eye. He had married twice, firstly Elizabeth (died 1644), the daughter of Sir John Ashburnham of Ashburnham, Sussex with whom he had 3 sons (of which only one outlived him) and a daughter and secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Crofts of Little Saxham, Suffolk, with whom he had a further daughter.

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• The Diary of Samuel Pepys