Sir George Cornewall 3rd Bart.

Awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on La Taste estate in Grenada as owner-in-fee.

1. Son of Sir George Cornewall (né Amyand) MP 2nd bart. (who d. 1819) and his wife Ann Maria, daughter of John Abraham Corteen, a Hamburg merchant. Matriculated Christ Church Oxford aged 18 27/4/1792. Married Jane Naper, daughter of William Naper (ne Dutton) in 1815. Died 27/12/1835.

2. Uncle of George Cornewall Lewis, and brother-in-law of Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, MP and minor ministerial politician, and of Henry Fleming Lea Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford.

3. Sir George Cornewall 2nd baronet has been the subject of a comparative analysis of his practices of estate management for Moccas Court in England and La Taste in Grenada.

4. Will of Sir George Cornewall of Moccas Court Herefordshire proved 12/02/1836.

T71/880 Grenada no. 706 Sir George Cornewall owner-in-fee.

1. History of Parliament Online, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/cornewall-sir-george-1748 [accessed 05/03/2020]; Ancestry.com. Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]; John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (4 vols., London, Henry Colburn, 1835-1838) Vol. 2 'Naper of Loughcrew', p. 642.

2. John Debrett, The baronetage of England, ed. Revised by G.W. Collen (London, William Pickering, 1840) 'Amyand, (now Corenwall) of London, p. 185.

3. Susanne Seymour, Stephen Daniels and Charles Watkins, 'Estate and empire: Sir George Cornewall's management of Moccas, Herefordshire and La Taste, Grenada, 1771-1819', Journal of Historical Geography 24:3 (1998) pp 313-51.

4. PROB 11/1857.

We are grateful to Stephen Lewis for his assistance with compiling this entry.