Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG (31 December 1738 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator.

Cornwallis Square is a Canadian village in Kings County, Nova Scotia.

For more than a year, Cornwallis sought out Mi kmaq leaders willing to negotiate a peace.

A generation later, Father Le Loutre's War began when Edward Cornwallis arrived to establish Halifax with 13 transports on June 21, 1749.