Author: Cornwall, E.
Biography:
CORNWALL, Eusebius (1790-1858: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 26 Aug. 1790 and baptised on 13 Sept. at Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, the son of Rev. Peter Monamy Cornwall (1747-1828) and Sarah Fry (1760-1845), who had married in 1783. His father had been educated at Westminster and Trinity College Cambridge and was later curate at Westbourne, Sussex, and Wotton-under-Edge where he was also schoolmaster. Eusebius Cornwall matriculated at New College Oxford in 1808 but migrated to St. John’s (BA 1812). He was ordained deacon (1813) and priest (1814) and was his father’s curate at Westbourne, from 1823. He was rector of St. Giles, Merston, near Chichester, Sussex (1837-1858). He married Mary Ann Walton (1793-1870), daughter of Colonel Brome Walton of the 1st Life Guards, on 21 Jan. 1817, at Wotton-under-Edge. They had at least seven daughters and three sons. He died on 12 Mar. 1858 at Chichester and was buried on 18 Mar. at St. Giles, Merston. He left a small estate of £450 to be administered by his widow. The Figured Mantle (1810) consists of the usual romantic tales. Miscellaneous Poems (1828) is mostly religious verse but includes two topographical poems, “Scenes in Chichester” and “Stonehenge.” A later collection, Sacred Gleanings (1843), collects further undistinguished religious and occasional verse with the odd parnassian flourish, (“To My Harp,” “Ad Poesim”). (ancestry.co.uk 6 Mar. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 6 Mar. 2023; CCEd 6 Mar. 2023; Cheltenham Chronicle 21 Aug. 1828; OUCH 2 Dec. 1837; Bucks Herald 17 Apr. 1858; GM May 1858, 563) AA
Other Names:
- the Rev. E. Cornwall