Francis Cornish

Who is Francis Cornish?

Francis Cornish, CMG LVO, is a retired British diplomat. He has served as the Foreign Office spokesman for Douglas Hurd, senior trade commissioner to Hong Kong, consul-general to Hong Kong and Macao, head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's news department, and ambassador to Israel. In Hong Kong he was also known in Chinese as 鄺富劭.

Cornish had other diplomatic and royal postings:

deputy private secretary to The Prince of Wales

spokesman to the Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd

High Commissioner to Brunei

handover transition advisor to Governor Chris Patten

Francis Cornish was Chairman of South West Tourism and is now chairman of the Taunton Town Centre Company and has a smallholding in the Quantocks. He is a non-executive director of two property companies.