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Edward Cornwallis (5 March [ O.S. 22 February] 1713 – 14 January 1776) [1] was a British career military officer and member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family, who reached the rank of Lieutenant General. After Cornwallis fought in Scotland, putting down the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, he was appointed Groom of the Chamber for King George ...
13 de jan. de 2008 · Edward Cornwallis, founder of Halifax in 1749, governor of Nova Scotia from 1749-52, military leader and governor of Gibraltar from 1762-76, (born 22 February 1713 in London, England; died 23 January 1776 in Gibraltar).
CORNWALLIS, Hon. Edward (1713-76), of Essington, Herts. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964. Available from Boydell and Brewer.
Biography – CORNWALLIS, EDWARD – Volume IV (1771-1800) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Source: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. CORNWALLIS, EDWARD, army officer and colonial administrator; founder of Halifax, Nova Scotia; b. 22 Feb. 1712/13 in London, England, sixth son of Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis, and Lady Charlotte ...
Lieut-General Hon. Edward Cornwallis. This 1750s painting, by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows Cornwallis in a regimental uniform that conforms to the colours of the 24th at that time, ie. green facings with silver lace. He had the rank of Lieutenant-General and would be expected to wear a general officer's uniform but he has chosen to sit for the ...
Biography. Returned in 1743 for the family borough of Eye, Edward Cornwallis voted for the Hanoverians, 18 Jan. 1744, spoke for the Government on a vote for extraordinary charges in respect of troops in British pay, 20 Mar. following, 1 and was classed in 1746 as Old Whig.
governor of Nova Scotia, Edward Corn - wallis. Was Cornwallis a courageous and far-sighted founder of Halifax and builder of colonial Nova Scotia, or was he a genocidal imperialist whose chief claim to notoriety was his placement of a price on the heads of all indigenous inhabitants of Mi’kma’ki? 1 Should Cornwallis continue to be distin-
