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, 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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

CORNE, WILLIAM, son of Rev. William Corne, Rector of Tixall, Staffs., and Ellen Peake (IGI); bapt. Tixall, Staffs. 6 Sep 1775 (IGI); adm.; in school list Christmas 1788; KS (aged 13) 1789; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1793, matr. 30 May 1793, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1793, Junior Censor 1806-10, Senior Censor 1811-7, Catechist 1811-7, also Librarian; BA 1797; MA 1800; BD 1809; Examiner 1805-6, 1815-7; Proctor 1808; Select Preacher 1814; Whitehall Preacher 1800; ordained; Rector of Hambledon, Bucks., 25 Jan 1803, having been given permission by Christ Church 10 Oct 1802, to hold living for eighteen months, while incumbent was under age; Curate, St. Thomas, Oxford, 1804, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1805, and Binsey, Oxfordshire, 1806; d. unm. 4 May 1818.

CORBRIDGE, JAMES, son of James Corbridge, Norwich, and Mary ---; bapt. St. Giles, Norwich 10 Dec 1729; in school list 1739; KS (aged 13) 1744; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1748, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jul 1748; BA 1752; ordained priest (Norwich, lit. dim. from Winchester) Mar 1754; Curate, Wotton, Surrey, and West Hoathly, Sussex, in 1754, previously of Pill, Somerset.