Earl Cornwallis

In 1753, he was created Viscount Brome, in the County of Suffolk, and Earl Cornwallis in the Peerage of Great Britain.

He represented Eye (which by this time was considered a pocket borough of the Cornwallis family)[2] and Suffolk in Parliament.

In 1814, Lord Cornwallis assumed by Royal licence his maternal grandfather's surname of Mann.

He had no surviving male issue and the earldom, viscountcy, barony and baronetcy became extinct on his death in 1852.

[1] Their son Fiennes Wykeham-Martin assumed by Royal licence the surname of Cornwallis in 1859.

Edward Cornwallis, the sixth son of the fourth Baron, was a soldier and is known as the founder of Halifax.