Lot 547: May B. Lee (fl. 1905-1914), RMS Lady Cornwallis,

May B. Lee (fl. 1905-1914), RMS Lady Cornwallis, portrait three-quarter length Signed lower right Titled and annotated to label in case 12.5cm x 8.8cm In a leather covered rectangular case with presentation plaque verso to Lord Cornwallis from Kent County Council dated 1930 Provenance: Cornwallis Col. Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis (1864-1935) was elected as MP for Maidstone in 1888, a seat he held until 1895 and again from 1898 to 1900. He was also Chairman of Kent County Council between 1910 and 1930. In 1927 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cornwallis, of Linton in the County of Kent. He married Mabel Leigh in 1886. They had seven children, their eldest son Lieutenant Fiennes Wykeham Mann Cornwallis was killed in Ireland in May 1921 during the Irish War of Independence. He was succeeded in the barony by his second son Wykeham Stanley Cornwallis. Lady Cornwallis died in 1957.