George Cornewall

For other people named George Cornewall, see George Cornewall (disambiguation).
Arms of Cornewall: Argent, a lion rampant gules ducally crowned or a bordure engrailed sable bezantee, being the arms of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1209-1272) with difference a bordure engrailed[1]

Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Baronet (8 November 1748 – 26 August 1819)[2] of Moccas Court, Herefordshire, was a British politician, soldier and baronet.

Origins

Born George Amyand, he was the eldest son and heir of Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet (1720–1766) by his wife Anna Maria Korteen, daughter of John Abraham Korteen, a Hamburg merchant.[3] In 1766 he succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet and inherited his interest in the banking firm of Amyand, Staples and Mercer.[3]

Career

Amyand was educated at Eton College then at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated Master of Arts in 1769.[4] In 1771 he assumed by royal licence the surname and arms of Cornewall in lieu of his patronymic,[5] in accordance with the bequest from his father-in-law, an inheritance which included Moccas Park in Herefordshire. In 1773 he received a Doctorate of Civil Law from the University of Oxford.[6]

Cornewall entered the British House of Commons in 1774, sitting for Herefordshire until 1796. He represented the constituency again in the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1802 and 1807. [7] He served in the Herefordshire Militia and became its colonel in 1805.[6]

He was owner of a plantation in Grenada, West Indies, and in 1775–81 re-built Moccas Court, the family's later residence in Herefordshire.[8] He inherited Mouse Castle, Cusop but exchanged it.[9]

Marriage & progeny

On 18 July 1771 he married Catherine Cornewall, only daughter and heiress of Velters Cornewall of Moccas[4] in Herefordshire, MP. His wife's family claimed descent from a younger branch of the de Cornewall family, Barons of Burford, lineally descended from Sir Richard of Cornwall[10] (d.1296, slain by an arrow at the Siege of Berwick), a natural son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1209-1272), (2nd son of King John) by his mistress Joan de Bath. Sir Richard of Cornwall married Joan FitzAlan, daughter of John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel, and by her had three sons and a daughter. His daughter, Joan of Cornwall, married Sir John Howard, from whom the Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk, are descended.[11] The arms of de Cornwall were: Argent, a lion rampant gules ducally crowned or a bordure engrailed sable bezantee,[12] being the arms of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall with difference a bordure engrailed. By his wife Catherine Cornewall he had two sons and six daughters,[3] including:

Death & burial

Cornewall died in 1819 and was buried at Moccas.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Courthope, William (ed.), Debrett's Baronetage of England, 7th Edition, London, 1835, p.185
  2. ↑ "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Retrieved 17 July 2009.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. vol. II (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 478.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Sir Lewis Namier, John Brooke, ed. (2002). The House of Commons, 1754–1790. vol. I. London: Secker & Warburg. pp. 253–254.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 11162. p. 1. 16 July 1771. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "ThePeerage – Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Bt". Retrieved 18 February 2007.
  7. ↑ "CORNEWALL, Sir George, 2nd Bt. (1748-1819), of Moccas Court, Herefs.". History of Parliament. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "Moccas Court, Official Website – History". Retrieved 17 July 2009.
  9. ↑ Revd Charles John Robinson (1869). A history of the castles of Herefordshire and their lords. Longman and co. pp. 40–41.
  10. ↑ Courthope, William (ed.), Debrett's Baronetage of England, 7th Edition, London, 1835, p.185
  11. ↑ Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, pp=574–5; Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, p=265
  12. ↑ Debrett's, 1835

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Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Thomas Foley
Thomas Foley		 Member of Parliament for Herefordshire
1774 – 1796
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Thomas Harley 1776–1796		 Succeeded by
Robert Biddulph
Thomas Harley
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Robert Biddulph
Thomas Harley		 Member of Parliament for Herefordshire
1802 – 1807
With: Sir John Geers Cotterell 1802–1803
John Matthews 1803–1806
Sir John Geers Cotterell 1806–1807		 Succeeded by
Sir John Geers Cotterell
Thomas Foley
Baronetage of Great Britain
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George Amyand		 Baronet
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