George Cornewall

Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Baronet (8 November 1748 – 26 August 1819) of Moccas Court, Herefordshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1807.

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. In 1766 he succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet and inherited his interest in the banking firm of Amyand, Staples and Mercer. 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. He was returned again for Herefordshire in a contest at the 1802 general election and was returned again in 1806. He decided not to face another contest at the 1807 general election. He served in the Herefordshire Militia and became its colonel in 1805. He inherited Mouse Castle, Cusop but exchanged it. In 1800, he sold Frilsham, Berkshire, which his father had purchased in 1762, to Robert Hayward.

He served as a Family Trustee of the British Museum from 1788 until his death. Sir George Cornewall, 3rd Baronet (1774–1835), eldest son and heir. Hannah Cornewall (died young) Anna-Maria Cornewall (1779–1872) Frances-Elizabeth Cornewall (1783–1864), married Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford, 12 December 1805. Charles Cornewall (1785–1822). Harriet Cornewall (1787–1838), married Thomas Frankland Lewis, 12 January 1805. Caroline Cornewall (1789–1875), married Sir William Duff-Gordon, 5 February 1810

Catherine Cornewall's family claimed descent from a younger branch of the de Cornewall family, Barons of Burford, lineally descended from Sir Richard of Cornwall The arms of de Cornwall were: Argent, a lion rampant gules ducally crowned or a bordure engrailed sable bezantee, being the arms of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall with difference a bordure engrailed.