Baron Cornwallis is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England

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 and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. The holders of the first creation were later made Earl Cornwallis and Marquess Cornwallis, but these titles are now extinct. For information on the first creation, see the Earl Cornwallis

Earl Cornwallis

Earl Cornwallis was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1753 for Charles Cornwallis, 5th Baron Cornwallis. The second Earl was created Marquess Cornwallis but this title became extinct in 1823, while the earldom and its subsidiary titles became extinct in 1852...

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The second creation came in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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 in 1927 when the Conservative

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 politician Fiennes Cornwallis

Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis

Colonel Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis CBE, TD, JP, DL,, was a British Conservative politician.-Early life:...

 was created Baron Cornwallis, of Linton in the County of Kent. He had previously represented Maidstone

Maidstone (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in Parliament and served as Chairman of the Kent County Council

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 from 1910 to 1930. He was the son of Fiennes Cornwallis (who had been born Fiennes Wykeham-Martin but had assumed the surname of Cornwallis by Royal license in 1859), son of Charles Wykeham-Martin and Lady Jemima Isabella, daughter of James Mann, 5th Earl Cornwallis. The first Baron's second but eldest surviving son, the second Baron, also served as Chairman of the Kent County Council

Kent County Council

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 and was Lord Lieutenant of Kent

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. the title is held by the latter's grandson, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in March 2010.

Barons Cornwallis, Second creation (1927)

• Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis
  Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis
  Colonel Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis CBE, TD, JP, DL,, was a British Conservative politician.-Early life:...
  
   (1864–1935)
• Wykeham Stanley Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis
  Wykeham Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis
  Colonel Wykeham Stanley Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis KCVO, KBE, MC , was a British peer.-Background and education:...
  
   (1892–1982)
• Fiennes Neil Wykeham Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis
  Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis
  Fiennes Neil Wykeham Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, OBE, DL was a British peer. He was the younger child, and the only son, of Wykeham Stanley Cornwallis and Cecily Etha Mary . He had an elder sister, Rosamond Patricia Susan Anne Cornwallis .He attended Eton College...
  
   (1921–2010)
• Fiennes Wykeham Jeremy Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis
  Jeremy Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis
  Fiennes Wykeham Jeremy Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis is the elder son of Fiennes Cornwallis and Judith Lacy Scott. He had a full sister and has a half brother and three half sisters. He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester...
  
   (b.1946)

The heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Fiennes Alexander Wykeham Martin Cornwallis (b.1987).