Charles Cornish


Charles Edward Cornish was an Anglican bishop in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Early life

Cornish was born to Charles Lewis Cornish and Eleanor Monro in London, England on 9 October 1842. He was educated at Uppingham and Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated with an MA and DD He also earned an MA from the University of Cape Town.
He married Mary Randall in Bristol in 1867.

Church career

Cornish was ordained in 1870. After a curacy at St George’s, Bristol Cornish held incumbencies at St Peter and St Paul, South Petherton and St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. In 1899, he was appointed Bishop of Grahamstown, a post he held for 16 years.
He died on 14 July 1936.

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