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The Naval Chronicle Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
“—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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