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Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, GCB (10 February 1744 – 5 July 1819) was a Royal Navy officer. He was the brother of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British commander at the siege of Yorktown.
Sir William Cornwallis (c. 1576 – 1 July 1614) was an early English essayist and served as a courtier and member of Parliament. His essays, influenced by the style of Montaigne , rather than that of Francis Bacon , became a model for later English essayists.
Sir William CORNWALLIS of Brome Hall, Knight. Born: ABT 1545, Brome, Suffolk, England. Died: 13 Nov 1611. Father: Thomas CORNWALLIS of Brome Hall (Sir) ( See his Biography) Mother: Anne JERNINGHAM. Married 1: Lucy NEVILLE. Children: 1. Elizabeth CORNWALLIS (V. Lumley) (m.1 Sir William Sandys - m.2 Richard Lumley, 1° V. Lumley) 2. Son CORNWALLIS. 3.
Lord Cornwallis was a British army officer, civil administrator, and diplomat. His career was primarily military in nature, including a series of well-known campaigns during the War of American Independence from 1776 to 1781 that culminated in his surrender at Yorktown. [2] .
Hon. Sir William Cornwallis 1744-1819. He was born in Suffolk on 20 February 1744, the fourth son of Charles, 1st Earl and 5th Lord Cornwallis, and of his wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of Viscount Townshend.
Biography. The Cornwallis family had held the manor of Brome since the middle of the fifteenth century. Cornwallis’s father, Queen Mary’s comptroller of the household, was a Catholic, and retired to his estates on the accession of Queen Elizabeth.
William Cornwallis was knighted during the 1599 Essex expedition to Ireland, and shortly afterward began writing regularly. He wrote poetry and prose, as well as political essays, and became friend with John Donne, and others.
