Background
Lord Cornwallis was born 27 May 1864 at Chacombe Priory, Banbury, Oxfordshire, the eldest son of Fiennes Cornwallis and Harriet Elizabeth (née Mott).
Lord Cornwallis was born 27 May 1864 at Chacombe Priory, Banbury, Oxfordshire, the eldest son of Fiennes Cornwallis and Harriet Elizabeth (née Mott).
He had one brother and two sisters and was educated at Eton College.
He was also Chairman of the Kent County Council between 1910 and 1930. In 1927 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cornwallis, of Linton in the County of Kent, where his country house, Linton Park, was situated. Lord Cornwallis married Mabel Leigh, daughter of Oswald Peter Leigh, in 1886.
Was an eminent 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.
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He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Maidstone in 1888, a seat he held until 1895 and again from 1898 to 1900.