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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. Life. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, Comptroller of the Household to Queen Mary, and his wife Anne Jerningham.
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.
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.
2 de dez. de 2020 · Students of Elizabethan literature are well acquainted with the fact that Sir William Cornwallis had part of Montaigne's essays available in translation before the composition of the first volume of his own essays, which was published in 1600, and probably written soon after he returned from Ireland where he had been knighted by ...
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.
