Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cornewall, Folliott Herbert Walker
CORNEWALL, FOLLIOTT HERBERT WALKER, D.D. (1754–1831), bishop of Worcester, was the second son of Frederick Cornewall of Delbury (1706–1788), captain in the royal navy, by Mary, daughter of Francis Herbert of Ludlow, first cousin of the first Earl of Powis. Charles Cornewall [q. v.] was his granduncle. His brother Frederick (d. 1783) was M.P. for Ludlow in 1780. He was born in 1754 and educated for the church, in which, having graduated B.A. at St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1777, he took orders. He proceeded M.A. in 1780, and the same year, through the interest of his second cousin, Charles Wolfran Cornwall [q. v.], speaker of the House of Commons, he obtained the post of chaplain to that assembly. He was preferred to a canonry at Windsor in 1784 and appointed master of Wigston's Hospital, Leicester, in 1790, dean of Canterbury in 1792, bishop of Bristol in 1797. He exchanged this see for that of Exeter in 1803, and in 1808 he was translated to the see of Worcester. He died on 5 Sept. 1831 at Hartlebury, and was buried in the family vault at Delbury, Shropshire. Cornewall married Anne, eldest daughter of the hon. and rev. George Hamilton, canon of Windsor, by whom he had issue two sons and one daughter. He published 'A Sermon preached before the House of Commons on 30 Jan. 1782,' and also 'A Fast Sermon preached before the House of Lords in 1798.'
[Burke's Royal Families, ii. cxcix; Burke's Landed Gentry (art. 'Cornewalls of Delbury'); Gent. Mag. (1831), p. 370.]