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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator.
Cornwallis may also refer to:
Places
Antarctica
Australia
- Cornwallis, New South Wales
- Dauan Island or Cornwallis Island, one of the Torres Strait Islands
Canada
- Cornwallis, Manitoba (rural municipality)
- Cornwallis Island (Nunavut)
- Cornwallis River, Kings County, Nova Scotia
- Cornwallis Township, Kings County, Nova Scotia
- Cornwallis Park, Nova Scotia
- Cornwallis Square, Nova Scotia
- Cornwallis Junior High School in Halifax
- CFB Cornwallis, a former Canadian Forces Base
- Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut
New Zealand
- Cornwallis, New Zealand, Auckland Region
United Kingdom
- Cornwallis Academy, Kent, England
United States
Other uses
- Cornwallis Valley Railway, a branchline of the Dominion Atlantic Railway
- SS Cornwallis, a Canadian freighter attacked by German submarine U-514
- HMS Cornwallis, several ships of the Royal Navy
- Cornwallis, one of several 18th-19th century vessels
- Fort Cornwallis, a star fort built by the British East India Company in Penang, present-day Malaysia
People with the surname
- Kinahan Cornwallis (1883–1959), British diplomat
- Thomas Cornwallis (1605–1675), one of the first commissioners of the Province of Maryland (brother of Sir William)
- Thomas Cornwallis (died 1604), MP for Grampound
- Sir William Cornwallis (died 1614) (c. 1579 – 1614), British essayist
- George Cornwallis-West (1874–1951), stepfather of Winston Churchill
Aristocratic title
Aristocratic English family
- Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis (1655–1698), who served as First Lord of the Admiralty
- Edward Cornwallis (1713–1776), British colonialist and founder of Halifax, Canada
- Frederick Cornwallis (1713–1783), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Sir William Cornwallis (1744–1819), British admiral during the Napoleonic Wars
People with the given name
- William Cornwallis Symonds (1810–1841), British officer in New Zealand
See also
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- Cornwall (disambiguation)
- Cornouailles (Cornish: Kernow), England, UK
- Cornouaille (Breton: Kernev), Brittany, France
- Cornouaille (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Cornwallis
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