Oswald Cornwallis

Who was Oswald Cornwallis?

Oswald Wykeham Cornwallis was an English cricketer who played as a right-handed batsman. Cornwallis made his first-class debut for the Army against the Royal Navy in 1920. Cornwallis would play four matches for the Army, the last of which came against the Royal Navy in 1926.

Cornwallis also represented Hampshire in one first-class match in 1921 against Kent, a match in which his brother Wykeham Cornwallis represented Kent. In his only first-class match for the club Cornwallis was absent in Hampshire's innings. His brother bowled in Hampshire's first innings, but was himself absent for Kent's first innings and Hampshire's second innings. Their absence was allowed following the death of their brother, Lieutenant Fiennes Wykeham Mann Cornwallis who was killed in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence by the IRA.

Cornwallis died in Froxfield, Hampshire on 28 January 1974.