This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Politics of the United Kingdom Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Politics of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Politics of the United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject Politics of the United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject Politics of the United KingdomPolitics of the United Kingdom articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. More information: /  This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool because one or more other projects use this class. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the |auto= parameter. Biography: Military / Peerage and Baronetage / Politics and Government This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles This article is supported by the military biography work group (assessed as Low-importance). This article is supported by WikiProject Peerage and Baronetage (assessed as Low-importance). This article is supported by the politics and government work group (assessed as Low-importance). Military history: Biography This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status: Referencing and citation: criterion not met Coverage and accuracy: criterion met Structure: criterion met Grammar and style: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion met Associated task forces: /  Military biography task force Philately Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Philately, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of philately and stamp collecting on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PhilatelyWikipedia:WikiProject PhilatelyTemplate:WikiProject PhilatelyPhilately articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. Cricket Low‑importance This article is part of WikiProject Cricket which aims to expand and organise information better in articles related to the sport of cricket. Please participate by visiting the project and talk pages for more details.CricketWikipedia:WikiProject CricketTemplate:WikiProject Cricketcricket articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. WikiProject Cricket To-do list: history watch purge Article assessment Check Category:Unassessed cricket articles for class and Category:Unknown-importance cricket articles for importance: see Assessment Department for details Verifiability Update fair and unfair play, fast bowling, first-class cricket, googly, innings, leg break, limited overs cricket, not out, Pakistan Cricket Board, spin bowling, underarm bowling, wicket, and other fundamental articles classified by the WikiProject as high-importance so that they meet WP:Verifiability policy standards Cleanup There is a toolserver based WikiProject Cricket cleanup list that automatically updates weekly to show all articles covered by this project which are marked with cleanup tags. (also available in one big list and in CSV format) Infoboxes Add infoboxes to the player articles found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/requested infoboxes Cricket people Create articles about 19th century players who are listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/19th century players Create biographies about Bangladeshi players from the task force redlink list Check the listing of key bios at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Key biographies and improve these to at least B-class. Create batting/bowling graphs for cricketers who have excelled in international cricket. Create articles for redlinks present here and here Cricket teams & countries Domestic cricket coverage is needed for Bangladesh, Canada, Kenya, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe; Create articles from redlinks and improve existing articles in List of current first-class cricket teams; National cricket teams; Under-19 national cricket teams Create articles about cricket in these missing countries Create or expand articles on international tours from items in Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/summary of international tour articles Create a link as such on Template:Cr-Aus/doc for Cricket Australia XI Images Add pictures (and remove template from address requests) in these Category:Wikipedia requested images of cricket people Add pictures for grounds missing photos from here On this day in cricket Expand the anniversary coverage for Portal:Cricket at Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries Umpires Expand ICC International umpire panel; ICC Elite referee panel; ICC Associates and Affiliates umpire panel Women Expand Women's cricket, Women's Test cricket and articles about women's cricket generally especially biographies and tours Update A number of lists need to be updated, can be found in Template:International cricketers and Template:National cricket captains Regularly updating cricketers' career stats. Other Export all cricket terms present in List of cricket terms to Wiktionary

Another rumor that I have heard is that the sandwhich was invented by the Lord as a way of feeding his wife with deteriorating health. Any truth to this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.178.101.151 ( talk) 08:33, 13 March 2007 (UTC). reply

I have read somewhere that he was corrupt, and one reason for the British not doing better in our war of independence was that he had been siphoning funds from the navy to his personal accounts. As a result, the ships were in a horrible state of disrepair, and the sailors' foodstuffs and other supplies suffered badly as well. 66.137.71.222 00:18, 22 June 2007 (UTC)Gene Douglas reply

It was a claim put about by many of his political opponents at the time, but there wasn't a great deal of truth in it. The Royal Navy actually performed fairly well during the war, and had it not been for victory at sea over French, Dutch and Spanish fleets, the peace terms in 1783 would most likely have been exceedingly harsher. In spite of this, the idea that his corruption led to the British defeat is still occasionally suggested. Lord Cornwallis ( talk) 03:33, 9 February 2009 (UTC) reply

A great article. Only one little note: what or who is that "Austin Liska"? I cannot find anything on the web about it (except some boys named the same), I dunno if it would be a historical name or a place or whatever. Is it an island? The text suggest so. Please... 157.181.62.1 ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 00:26, 13 May 2008 (UTC) reply

Recently the files below were uploaded and they appear to be relevant to this article and not currently used by it. If you're interested and think they would be a useful addition, please feel free to include any of them.

• 
  By Johann Zoffany, circa 1764
• 
  By Joseph Highmore, 1740

Dcoetzee 06:16, 23 April 2009 (UTC) reply

The Earl's mistress, Martha Ray, is said in the "Personal life" section to have born him "about nine" children. In the later chronology section she is said to have been the mother of five with him. There is a citation for the "about nine", but nothing for the five.

Obviously needs verification or just correction to the chronology? Help?! -- gobears87 ( talk) 01:10, 4 November 2009 (UTC) reply

Need to clarify DOB, as introduction and infobox has 3 November while chronology has 14 November. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benyoch ( talk • contribs) 14:43, 20 January 2012 (UTC) reply

I've changed them both to 13 November, in line with his biography. Lord Cornwallis ( talk) 23:03, 6 April 2012 (UTC) reply

Thanks, Lord C. Thanks too for your recent development of the article (Sandwich is my 6th great g/father). Hope you dont mind me making a few grammatical tweaks, mostly about use of caps. I now wonder tho if my 'in opposition' is correct as term could imply disagreement on political rather than military matters. Will leave that one to you. All the best. Benyoch ( talk) 01:31, 7 April 2012 (UTC) reply

Is this John Montagu (4e comte de Sandwich) fork?-- Saramag ( talk) 19:16, 18 January 2017 (UTC) reply

• Sorry, I'm wrong)-- Saramag ( talk) 19:17, 18 January 2017 (UTC) reply