Frederick Cornewall [SEP] date of death
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 Trice (d. 1730). He was baptised in his father's church on 3 August 1706.
Career.
Following the example of his uncle, Admiral Charles Cornewall, he embarked on a naval career, being promoted to
Command passed to his cousin, Frederick Cornewall, who was First Lieutenant aboard the "Marlborough", but he too was severely wounded and lost his right arm. Captain Cornewall was buried at sea.
News of Cornewall's death was greeted by a public show of grief comparable with that following the loss of Nelson sixty years later, though the man had led a solid but unspectacular naval career. As Horace Walpole later put it, "In the present dearth of glory [Cornewall] is canonized, though poor man!