Sir William Cornwallis

(1744-1819)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cornwallis, William, Sir, 1744-1819 NRA: Cornwallis, Sir William (1744-1819) Knight Admiral DNB: Cornwallis, Sir William (1744-1819), naval officer LBT ID: WiCornw1819 VIAF ID: 73710925 LOC ID: nr91027236	B/BAP: 1744-02-20 DIED: 1819-07-05
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He fought in the Seven Years' War and was commander-in-chief in the East Indies 1789-93, and of the Channel Fleet 1801, 1803-06.
REFERENCES TO Sir William Cornwallis: Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 15 February 1806 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1806 Verse 2: p. 108a p. 108a Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XII. 1806 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 21