Alan Cornwall (priest)


Alan Whitmore Cornwall was Archdeacon of Cheltenham from 1924 until his death.
Born at Uley on 4 October 1858 into an ecclesiastical family he was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford and ordained after a period of study at Wells Theological College in 1884. After curacies in Cirencester and Gloucester he was the Vicar of Coleford from 1891 until 1899; and then of Thornbury until his Archdeacon's appointment.
He died on 9 June 1932. His son, Nigel, was Bishop of Borneo from 1949 until 1962.