Cornelius Norwood 1714/5-1766
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Cornelius NORWOOD 1714/5-1766
Biographical Note
Son of Cornelius Norwood, rector of St Maurice, Winchester. BA Queen's College, Oxford 1737, MA 1741. Rector of Merthyr Dyfan, Llandaff 1757, and chaplain to Lady Mary Raymond.
Books
Norwood used an engraved armorial bookplate, Franks 22060 (unless it was made for his father of the same name, who died in 1717). The extent and disposition of his library is not known.
Sources
- Clergy of the Church of England Database.
- Foster, J., Alumni Oxonienses, Oxford, 1891.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J., Franks bequest. Catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed ... by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, London, 1903-4.