MS 968 01
Reference code
MS 968 01
Title
Letters from Francis Thackeray Warre Cornish to his parents and siblings
Level
Series
Administrative / Biographical history
Francis Thackeray Warre Cornish (1871-1901), son of Francis and Blanche Warre Cornish, studied at Winchester College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was a talented artist and studied drawing in Germany. He served with the 13th Somerset Light Infantry at Gibraltar and India from 1892 to 1895 before transferring to the 17th Bengal Lancers. He died in a shooting accident at Rawalpindi, India in 1901.
Date
1889 - 1891
Extent & medium
3 volumes - rehoused in 3 files
Content description
Letters from Francis Warre Cornish, while at school and in the Army, to his parents Francis and Blanche Warre Cornish and his siblings
Publication note
Letters and Sketches of Francis Warre Cornish Eton, Spottiswoode (1902)
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