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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 (c. 1549– 13 November 1611) was an English courtier and politician. [1] Life. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, Comptroller of the Household to Queen Mary, and his wife Anne Jerningham. He became a courtier at around age 21, spent heavily to secure position there, and married by 1578, [1] Lucy Neville.
William Cornwallis, the essayist, eldest son3 of Charles Corn- wallis by his first wife, was born probably about 1579 4 in Norfolk. Little is directly discoverable about his early life and education. It is probable that he was at Oxford, though his name is not in any of. the usual books of reference.
2019 marks the bicentenary of the death of Admiral William Cornwallis. As a major figure in the Royal Navy’s actions in the Napoleonic wars and instrumental in the execution of campaigns such as the Blockade of Brest, it is perhaps surprising that Cornwallis did not gain the lasting fame of his contemporaries such as Nelson.
CORNWALLIS, Sir William (c.1549-1611), of Brome Hall, Suff. and London. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981. Available from Boydell and Brewer. Constituency. Dates. LOSTWITHIEL. 1597. Family and Education.
10 de ene. de 2011 · william cornwallis, admiral of the blue, and rear-admiral of england The Naval Chronicle Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects
