John Cornwallis (23 December 1706 – 9 June 1768) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1747.
[1] Cornwallis was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for the family seat of Eye at the 1727 general election with his elder brother Stephen.
He voted regularly with the Government and was appointed Equerry to Prince of Wales in about 1731.
At the end of Walpole's Administration he voted with the Opposition on Pulteney's motion for a secret committee to inquire into the war, on account of which his brother, Lord Cornwallis, turned him out of doors next day.
He was not renominated by Lord Cornwallis for Eye at the 1747 election but stood on his own account and was defeated.