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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PITCHFORD CORNISH, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2011

Edited by
James Stanier Clarke  and
John McArthur
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“—O, the cry did knock

Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!

Had I been any god of power, I would

Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er

It should the good ship so have swallowed, and

The freighting souls within her.”

Shakespeare.

Of the immediate ancestors of Admiral Cornish we have no particular information; but it is of some importance to state, that he is descended, collaterally, from that distinguished Officer, Sir Samuel Cornish, Bart. Vice-Admiral of the Red Squadron, who was brother to the present Admiral's mother. Our Officer's paternal name is Pitchford; but, in the year 1771, he assumed that of Cornish, in pursuance of the will of his uncle, who died, much lamented, in the preceding year, and left him a considerable portion of his property.

The late Baronet may be mentioned as one of the innumerable instances recorded in British history, of humble merit attaining a splendid remuneration; for the rank which he enjoyed, and the honourable title which was conferred on him, towards the close of his life, were simply the rewards of persevering exertion and intrinsic worth

Under the protection and tuition of his uncle, Mr. Pitchford was first inured to the toils of the service.

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The Naval Chronicle
Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects
 , pp. 345 - 424
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1804

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