Alan Cornwall (priest)

Alan Whitmore Cornwall^[1] (4 October 1858 – 9 June 1932) was Archdeacon of Cheltenham from 1924 until his death.

Born at Uley on 4 October 1858^[2] into an ecclesiastical family ^[3] he was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford and ordained after a period of study at Wells Theological College in 1884.^[4] 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.^[5] His son, Nigel, was Bishop of Borneo from 1949 until^[6] 1962.