George Cornewall [SEP] noble title
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
"Pentamerone", with introduction by Jakob Grimm (1846).
- Johannes Damascenus's "Barlaam und Josaphat" (1847).
- John Colin Dunlop's "Geschichte der Prosadichtungen" (1851).
- an edition of Gervasius of Tilbury's "Otia Imperialia" (1856).
- George Cornewall Lewis's "Untersuchungen über die Glaubwürdigkeit der altrömischen Geschichte" (2 volumes, 1858).
A collection of original essays by him was published at Heilbronn in 1879, under the title "