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With a well-paid civil service, Clive’s successors — Warren Hastings and Lord Cornwallis — avoided the collectors by padding their salaries with private deals.
With the new title of Governor-General, Hastings and then Cornwallis were responsible to the British government rather than the Company.
Britten, Cornwallis, and all the rest get in not because of their abundant presence in texts, but because lexicographers feel that the bearers of these names are important folk.
To Americans, Cornwallis was History (i.e., irrelevant) after Yorktown.
In Windsor, stop off to see the 18th-century blockhouse at Fort Edward (named after Governor Edward Cornwallis), grim monument to the British military presence that prepared the deportation.