Sir Kinahan Cornwallis

Standard Name: Cornwallis, Sir Kinahan
Used Form: Kinahan "Ken" Cornwallis

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Gertrude Bell
GB was later attracted to Kinahan Ken Cornwallis , an Intelligence Expert for the Finance Ministry in Egypt, seventeen years her junior. They worked together in various capacities and travelled together, and she apparently hoped...
Friends, Associates Rosita Forbes
An indefatigable name-dropper, RF wrote that the greatest, and most sensible, man she had ever met was Kemal Atatürk ; she then bracketed with him Franklin Delano Roosevelt .
Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell, 1944.
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In Cairo she was always...
Literary responses Gertrude Bell
Of her writing in this genre a colleague, Sir Kinahan Cornwallis , remarked that officialdom could never spoil the freshness and vividness of her style or the terseness of her descriptions. Throughout them all can...
politics Freya Stark
Stark was kept there with Sir Kinahan Cornwallis , who became an associate, as well as her friend Captain Vyvyan Holt . Following the siege, Stark was airlifted temporarily to Jerusalem, and wrote several...
Textual Production Freya Stark
The preface to this volume was written by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis , future British ambassador to Iraq.
Stark, Freya. A Winter in Arabia. J. Murray, 1940.
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Texts

Bell, Gertrude, and Sir Kinahan Cornwallis. The Arab War. Golden Cockerel Press, 1940.