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George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West est né le 14 novembre 1874 à Ruthin, au pays de Galles, et mort le 1 er avril 1951 à Londres, en Angleterre. Major de l'armée britannique, il est surtout connu pour ses mariages successifs avec Jennie Jerome (mère de Winston Churchill ) et Stella Campbell (connue pour son rôle d'Eliza Doolittle dans Pygmalion ).
George Cornwallis-West was the great-great-grandson of John Whitby, the flag captain of Admiral Sir William Cornwallis (1744-1819) of Milford-on-Sea. He was an unlikely historian, but his two historical works are of considerable value.
Montagu Porch resembled George Cornwallis-West [Jennie’s second husband, whom she had divorced in 1914] only in that they were both very handsome. But Montie was a much less forceful man, and he did not have George’s aggressive gallantry with women. His background was that of a country squire in Glastonbury.
His widow, Lady Randolph Churchill, married George Cornwallis-West in 1900, when she became known as Mrs. George Cornwallis-West. After that marriage was dissolved, she resumed by deed poll her prior married name, Lady Randolph Churchill.
1904 CORNWALLIS-WEST, George, 35.4, Great Cumberland Place, London, W. Car: 16-h.p. Brush. Hobbies: Fishing, shooting, riding, golf. Is one of the Directors of the British Electric Traction Company; became a motorist in 1900. Entered the Scots Guards in 1895, and at the commencement of the South African war served on Lord Methuen's staff.
as. "a Black Slave". George Cornwallis-West was the brother of two of the most beautiful and well-married women of the time, Princess Daisy of Pless and Constance, Duchess of Westminster. Dressed as a black slave in the entourage of his sister Daisy, it was at the Ball that he first met his future wife, the widowed Lady Randolph Churchill who ...
