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GB-2014-WSA-05347 · Person · ca. 1748-1829

COTTER, SIR JAMES LAURENCE, BART., eldest son of Sir James Cotter, Bart., MP (I), and Arabella, widow of Col. --- Casaubon, MP (I), Carrig, co. Cork, and dau. of Right Hon. John Rogerson, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland; b.; adm.; KS (Capt., aged 14) 1762; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1766, matr. 18 Jun 1766, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1766 - void by marriage 16 Jan 1773; BA 1770; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Aug 1766; MP (I) Taghmon 1769-76, Mallow 1783-90, Castlemartyr 1790-7, 1798-1800; succ. father as 2nd baronet 9 Jun 1770; partner, Cotter & Kellet, bankers, Cork; m. 1st, c. Jan. 1773, Anne, only dau. of Francis Kearney, Garretstown, nr. Kinsale, co. Cork; m. 2nd, 16 Jul 1785 (IGI) Isabella, widow of George Brereton, Carrigslaney, co. Carlow, and dau. of Rev. James Hingston, Aglish, co. Cork, Prebendary of Cloyne; d. 9 Feb 1829.

GB-2014-WSA-019006 · Person · d. 1831

COTTER, GEORGE SACKVILLE, brother of Sir James Laurence Cotter, Bart. (qv); b. ; in school list Jun 1764; KS (Capt. , aged 13) 1765; Capt. of the School 1770; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1771, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1771, scholar 15 May 1772, matr. 1774; BA 1775; MA 1779; ordained deacon 12 May 1776, priest 1 Nov 1778 (both Cork); Curate, Cloyne, 21 Jun 1781; Vicar of Kilmichael, co. Cork 18 Feb 1784 - May 1797; Rector of Tullcredan, Garryvoe and Ightermurragh, co. Cork, from 27 May 1797; author, two volumes of poems, 1788, and of translations of comedies of Plautus, 1826, and Terence, 1827; m. 4 Nov 1775 (IGI) Margaret, dau. of Bayley Rogers, Cork city, physician and banker; d. 4 Apr 1831. DNB.

GB-2014-WSA-05345 · Person · ca. 1749-1770

COTTER, EDMUND, brother of Sir James Laurence Cotter, Bart. (qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1762; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1766, matr. 18 Jun 1766, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1766; BA 1770; d. unm. Sep 1770, “owing to a wound in a fray”.

Cother, William, 1812-1870
GB-2014-WSA-05343 · Person · 1812-1870

COTHER, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Cother FRCS, surgeon, Gloucester, and Mary Eliza --- (IGI); b. 8 Nov 1812; adm. 20 Jan 1825 (Stikeman's); KS (Capt. ) 1826; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1830, matr. 28 May 1830, Westminster Student to 1837; BA 1834; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 28 Jan 1835, called to bar 19 Nov 1842; Oxford Circuit; practised as a conveyancer in Gloucester; m. 30 Apr 1850 Marion, youngest dau. of John Warburton MD; d. at Dinant, France 20 Mar 1870.

Corsellis, John, 1923-2018
GB-2014-WSA-19913 · Person · 1923-2018

Corsellis, John, son of Douglas Henry Corsellis, barrister, and Helen Mary, sister of Philip Manley Bendall (qv); b. 14 Jan. 1923; adm. Sept. 1936 (H), (KS) Sept. 1937; left July 1940; articled clerk Herbert & Gowers Oxf. 1941-9; humanitarian aid worker Friends Ambulance Unit 1942, UNRRA 1945-7; adm. solicitor Mar. 1949; gen. sec., Educational Interchange Council 1949-62; OM (1st class) Fed. Rep. of Germany 1963; registrar, Bell Sch. of Languages 1962-92, subsequently bursar and principal; sec., Bell Educ. Trust 1952-92; registrar Camb. Centre for Languages, Sawston Hall 1982-91; retd. 1991; co-author Slovenia 1945: Memories of death and survival after World War II 2005 and co-researcher The Unassuming Sky: The Life and Poetry of Timothy Corsellis 2012; initiated Timothy Corsellis Prize Competition in memory of elder brother, featuring the World War II War Poets; John Corsellis archive accessible at History Dept., Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich; m. 26 May 1966 Ursula Ann Constance Alder OBE MA SRN SCM JP, author, d. of Haswell Alder, mining engineer, of Burnbridge, Yorks.; d. 18 Nov. 2018.

GB-2014-WSA-05328 · Person · fl. 1597

CORNWALLIS, WILLIAM, of Suffolk; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1597, adm. scholar 1598, matr. c. 1598; training for Roman Catholic priesthood at Douai Coll. 1599-1600 as William Huett, alias Cornwallis.

GB-2014-WSA-05327 · Person · 1747-1828

CORNWALL, PETER MONAMY, son of Thomas Cornwall, Marsham Street, Westminster, apothecary, and Ann, dau. of Peter Monamy, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; bapt. St. Margaret’s, Westminster 20 Jan 1747; adm.; BB; KS (aged 15) 1762; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1766, adm. pens. 28 May 1766, scholar 15 May 1767; BA 1770; MA 1780; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1771; ordained; Curate, Fonthill Gifford, Wilts., c. 1772-6, Minchinhampton, Gloucs., 1776; Curate, Wotton under Edge, Gloucs., from 1788; Head Master, Wotton-under-Edge GS 1788; Vicar of Westbourne, Sussex, from 26 Jun 1805; m. 1st, 25 Jun 1772 Mary Wyar; m. 2nd, 1783 Sarah Fry; d. 24 Jul 1828.

GB-2014-WSA-05324 · Person · 1721-1799

CORNTHWAITE, THOMAS, son of William Cornthwaite, Westminster, and Anne, eldest dau. of Very Rev. Thomas Tullie LLD, Dean of Carlisle; b. 30 Apr 1721; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1732/3; KS 1735; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1739, adm. pens. 21 Jun 1739, scholar 2 May 1740; BA 1742/3; MA 1746; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1745, Major Fellow 2 Jul 1746; adm. Grays Inn 11 Jul 1741; ordained deacon (Norwich) Jun 1747, priest (Lincoln) 20 Dec 1747; Perpetual Curate of Mortlake, Surrey, from Nov 1751; Vicar of Hackney, Middlesex, from 27 Jan 1753; m. 26 Apr 1757 Hester, dau. of John Moorey, Homerton, Middlesex; d. 29 May 1799.

GB-2014-WSA-05321 · Person · 1833-1912

CORNISH, KENNETH HENRY, eldest son of Rev. Henry Hubert Cornish DD, Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, and Mary, eldest dau. of Capt. Sir William Dick, Bart., EICS Bengal; nephew of Charles James Cornish (qv); b. 17 Jul 1833; adm. (Rigaud's) 1 Oct 1846; QS 1848; left Nov 1849; Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Mar 1851; St. George’s Hospital; MRCS 1857; a medical practitioner in London; edited various scientific and political journals 1857-67; d. 1912.

Cornelyes, ---, fl. 1556
GB-2014-WSA-05316 · Person · fl. 1556

CORNELYES, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).