Folliott Herbert Walker Cornewall (bapt. 9 May 1754 – 5 September 1831) was an English bishop of three sees.

Life

Folliott (or Folliot) Herbert Cornewall was baptised in

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on 9 May 1754, the second surviving son of

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Frederick Cornewall Captain Frederick Cornewall (1706 – 4 August 1788) was an officer in the British Royal Navy. Origins He was born in 1706, the third son of Rev. Frederick Cornewall (1677-1748), Vicar of Bromfield, Shropshire, and his first wife Elizabeth Tr ...

and Mary, daughter of Francis Herbert of

, first cousin of

Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis Henry Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis PC (before 9 April 1703Baptism date. – 10 September 1772), known as Henry Herbert until 1743 and as The Lord Herbert of Chirbury between 1743 and 1748, was a British peer and politician. Background A me ...

. He was educated at

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before going to

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, where he

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in 1776, was awarded a

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and an

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in 1780. He was a

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from 1777 to 1784. Cornewall was ordained as a

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on 14 December 1777, and as a priest on 20 December 1778, by

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, Bishop of Peterborough. In 1780, through the interest of his second cousin,

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, he obtained the post of

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. He became

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in 1781, and

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of East Rudham in 1786. He was also preferred to a

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in 1784. Cornewall inherited the estates of his older brother,

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, on his death in 1783, and also those of a relative: Francis Walker of

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. To obtain the latter inheritance, Cornewall added the name "Walker" to his own. He was appointed master of Wigston's Hospital,

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, in 1790,

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in 1792,

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in 1797. He exchanged this see to become bishop of Hereford in 1803, and in 1808 he was translated to be

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. In 1817 he served as treasurer of the Salop Infirmary in Shrewsbury. He published ''A Sermon preached before the House of Commons on 30 Jan. 1782'', and also ''A Fast Sermon preached before the House of Lords in 1798''.

Marriage and family

Cornewall married Anne (d. 15 December 1795), eldest daughter of George Hamilton, canon of Windsor, n 19 June 1787, at

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, Buckinghamshire. The couple had three children: * Frederick Hamilton Cornewall (1791–1845) * Marianne Cornewall (1793–1865) * Herbert Cornewall (1794–1863) Folliot Cornewall died at

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on 5 September 1831 aged 77, and was buried in the family vault at

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, Shropshire. According to the ''

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'', he "was possessed of fair scholarship, strong good sense, polished manners, and an amiable temper: and had passed a virtuous and exemplary life."

References

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