For the early 18th-century Admiral, see Charles Cornewall.
The Right Honourable
Charles Wolfran Cornwall
Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough
Speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain
In office 31 October 1780 – 2 January 1789
Monarch
George III
Prime Minister
Frederick North Charles Watson-Wentworth William Petty William Cavendish-Bentinck William Pitt
Preceded by
Fletcher Norton
Succeeded by
William Grenville
Personal details
Born
15 June 1735 (2024-06-30UTC03:48:56) Winchester
Died
2 January 1789 (1789-01-03) (aged 53) London
Nationality
British
Spouse
Elizabeth Jenkinson
Alma mater
New College, Oxford
Charles Wolfran Cornwall (15 June 1735 – 2 January 1789) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1789. He was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1780 to 1789.[1]
^Hunt, William (1887). "Cornwall, Charles Wolfran" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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