Charles Wolfran Cornwall

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
MonarchGeorge III
Prime MinisterFrederick North
Charles Watson-Wentworth
William Petty
William Cavendish-Bentinck
William Pitt
Preceded byFletcher Norton
Succeeded byWilliam Grenville
Personal details
Born15 June 1735 (2024-11-08UTC14:28:48)
Winchester
Died2 January 1789 (1789-01-03) (aged 53)
London
NationalityBritish
SpouseElizabeth Jenkinson
Alma materNew 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]

  1. ^ Hunt, William (1887). "Cornwall, Charles Wolfran" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co.