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Charles Cornish

The Right Reverend
Charles Cornish
Bishop of Grahamstown
Church Anglican
Diocese Grahamstown
In office 1899 – 1915
Orders
Ordination 1870
Consecration 1899
Personal details
Born (1842-10-09)9 October 1842
Died 14 July 1936(1936-07-14) (aged 93)

Charles Edward Cornish (9 October 1842–14 July 1936) was an Anglican Bishop in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Cornish was born to Charles Lewis Cornish (then Dean of Exeter College, Oxford) 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.

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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