CORNWALLIS, Sir William (c.1579-1614), of Whitehall; formerly of Grimston Hall, Trimley, Suff.

b. c. 1579, 1st s. of Sir Charles Cornwallis* (d.1629) and his 1st w. Anne, da. and coh. of Thomas Fincham of Fincham, Norf. educ. ?Queen’s, Oxf. m. 26 Aug. 1595, Katharine (d. 30 Jan. 1637), da. of Sir Philip Parker of Erwarton, Suff., 6s. 5da. (3 d.v.p.).P.B. Whitt, ‘New Light on Sir William Cornwallis the Essayist’, in Rev. Eng. Studies, viii. 157-9; Add. 19104, ff. 169, 171. Kntd. 5 Aug. 1599. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 97. bur. 1 July 1614. St. Martin-in-the-Fields ed. T. Mason (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxv), 169.