Humphrey Cornewall

Sir Humphrey Cornewall, baptised 16 July 1616, buried 7 July 1688, was an English landowner from Herefordshire and Member of Parliament for Leominster from 1661 to 1679. He served in the Royalist army during the First English Civil War, although he later claimed to have done so under compulsion. After the Stuart Restoration, he was appointed Deputy lieutenant of Herefordshire in 1662, and became Mayor of Ludlow in 1686.

Personal details

He was born in 1616, the eldest son of John Cornewall and Mary Barneby, and was baptised at Eye, Herefordshire on 14 July 1616.

Career

During the First English Civil War, he served on the Royalist side under Sir Henry Lingen, though he later claimed to have done so only to defend himself and his neighbours from the depredations of cavalier soldiers. Edward Harley attested that Cornewall was forced to participate in an assault on Stokesay Castle and to sit on a royalist grand jury. For this support of the cause of King Charles, he was fined £222 by the victorious Parliamentarians on 1 July 1647. Robert Cornewall (1647–1705), soldier and courtier Cyriac Cornewall (1652–1718), captain in his cousin Henry Cornewall's Regiment of Foot Humphrey Cornewall Edward Cornewall, also a captain in Cornewall's Foot Wolfran Cornewall (1658–1720), captain in the Royal Navy. His great grandson was Charles Wolfran Cornwall. Bridget Cornewall A daughter Winifrid, who married a Mr Richard Whitney Caroline Cornewall, married a Mr Roborow

Humphrey Cornwall died and was buried at Ludlow on 7 July 1688.