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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. Cornwallis took part in a number of decisive battles including the siege of Louisbourg in 1758, when he was 14, and the Battle of the ...
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.
He was knighted, by 1594. At the Union of the Crowns, in June 1603 he rode to Northamptonshire to meet Anne of Denmark and her children. [2] He laid on a performance by his friend Ben Jonson at Highgate in 1604, for James I. He employed the composer Thomas Watson and other musical and literary men. [3] Cornwallis died on 13 November 1611.
He made his will 20 Oct 1611 , desiring to be buried in the chancel of the parish church of Orley, near Brome. He left debts amounting to nearly £4,000, to pay which five manors were to be sold. His wife Jane Mewtas and infant son were named executors, and Sir John Hobart supervisor. Cornwallis died 13 Nov 1611.
10 de ene. de 2011 · William Harvey, Esq. Clarenceux, King of Arms, in his visitation of the county of Suffolk in 1561, mentions Thomas Cornwalleys (as the name was anciently written), of London, merchant, who is the first that appears in this account, and gives the particulars of a deed drawn in Edward the Third's time, which he saw, and also the arms of the family engraven on stone in the church porch of Otley ...
Cornwallis’s father, Queen Mary’s comptroller of the household, was a Catholic, and retired to his estates on the accession of Queen Elizabeth. Cornwallis was related to the Cecils through the marriage of his sister-in-law, Dorothy Neville, to Thomas Cecil , later 1st Earl of Exeter, a connexion on which he traded heavily.
Cornwallis came from a long military tradition, which included his uncle, Lieutenant General Edward Cornwallis (1713–1776), and his brother, Admiral William Cornwallis (1744–1819). The young Charles was no different, and at the age of eighteen he devoted his life to a career in the military and joined the British Army.
