About Frederick Cornewall
Lived 1752 – 1783 (aged 31). Frederick Cornewall was a politician.
Frederick Walker Cornewall (13 April 1752 – 28 April 1783) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between from 1776 to 1783.
Cornewall was born in Ludlow on 13 April 1752, the eldest surviving son of Captain Frederick Cornewall and his wife Mary Herbert, and went to school at Eton College. In 1770, aged 18, he was admitted as a Pensioner on 17 May and as a Fellow-commoner on 21 October to St John's College, Cambridge. He did not graduate, but was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 19 May 1773 and called to the bar in 1788.
Cornewall was returned unopposed as a Tory Member of Parliament for Leominster at a by-election on 26 September 1776. He may have had the patronage of Lord Powis. In the 1780 general election, he was elected to represent Ludlow.
Cornewall died, unmarried, on . He is buried in the family tomb in Diddlebury.
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English lawyer and politician, 1752-1783
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Frederick Cornewall died on 28 April 1783.
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