James Mann, 5th Earl Cornwallis (20 September 1778 – 21 May 1852), known as James Cornwallis until 1814 and as James Mann between 1814 and 1823 and styled Viscount Brome between 1823 and 1824, was a British peer and

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politician.

Background and education

Born James Cornwallis, he was the only son of the Right Reverend

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, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, by Catherine, third daughter of Galfridus Mann, of Boughton Place,

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, Kent, and sister of Sir Horatio Mann, 2nd Baronet.

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, and Sir William Cornwallis were his uncles. He was educated at Eton and

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Political career

Cornwallis was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for

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in 1798 (alongside his uncle Sir William Cornwallis), a seat he held until November 1806. He was re-elected for the same constituency again in January 1807, but this time only held the seat until May of the same year. After succeeding to the estates of his maternal uncle in 1814, he assumed by Royal licence the surname of Mann in lieu of Cornwallis. He became known by the

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Viscount Brome in 1823 after his father succeeded in the earldom of Cornwallis. In the following year, he himself succeeded in the earldom and took his seat in the

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Family

Lord Cornwallis was married three times. He married firstly Maria Isabella, daughter of Francis Dickens, in 1804. After his first wife's death, he married secondly Laura, daughter of William Hayes, in 1829. After his second wife's death, he married thirdly Julia, daughter of Thomas Bacon of Redlands House at

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in Berkshire, in 1842. She was the niece of the industrialist,

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and the aunt of Admiral

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. There were children from the first and third marriages. Lord Cornwallis died in May 1852, aged 73. His only son had died unmarried at the age of 22 and the titles consequently became extinct on his death. Cornwallis's daughter from his first marriage, Lady Jemima Isabella, married Charles Wykeham Martin. Their son

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assumed the surname of Cornwallis in lieu of his family name in accordance with the will of Caroline Cornwallis. The Cornwallis title was revived in 1927 when Fiennes's son and namesake Fiennes Cornwallis was made

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. He was the great-grandson of Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis; the great-great-grandson of Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis; the great-great-great-grandson of Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis; and the great-great-great-great-grandson of Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis.

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Barons Cornwallis

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