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Leonard Cyril Cornwell (28 March 1893 – 16 March 1971) was Archdeacon of Swindon from 1947 to 1963.

He was educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge and ordained in 1916. He first posts were as a Curate in Plymouth and then, from 1918 to 1921, as a Chaplain to the Forces. After further curacies in Chippenham and Bristol he held incumbencies in Chippenham and Brinkworth.

References

Ecclesiastical News The Times (London, England), Friday, Mar 28, 1947; pg. 7; Issue 50721
‘CORNWELL, Ven. Leonard Cyril’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 21 Aug 2014
National Archives
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1967/8 p263: Oxford, OUP, 1967

Church of England titles
Preceded byRonald Erskine Ramsay	Archdeacon of Swindon 1947–1963	Succeeded byCyril William Johnston Bowles

v t e Archdeacons of North Wilts, of Swindon and of Malmesbury
North Wilts	Hemming Robeson Ravenscroft Stewart
Swindon	Reginald Talbot Ronald Ramsay Leonard Cornwell Cyril Bowles Freddy Temple Jeffrey Maples Kenneth Clark Michael Middleton Alan Hawker (became Archdeacon of Malmesbury)
Malmesbury	Alan Hawker (previously Archdeacon of Swindon) Christine Froude Graham Archer (Acting) Christopher Bryan

v t e Diocese of Bristol
Bristol Cathedral bishop's house, Winterbourne Bishop's Office, Bristol Hillside House, Bristol
Office holders	Vivienne Faull, Bishop of Bristol Neil Warwick, Bishop suffragan of Swindon AEO: Paul Thomas, Bishop suffragan of Oswestry & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Mandy Ford, Dean of Bristol Christopher Bryan, Archdeacon of Malmesbury Becky Waring, Archdeacon of Bristol
Historic offices	Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol (1836–1897; see Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol) Bishop suffragan of Malmesbury (1927–1994; renamed to Swindon) Archdeacon of Dorset (1542–1836; returned to Salisbury) Archdeacon of North Wilts (1904–1919; renamed to Swindon) Archdeacon of Swindon (1919–1999; renamed to Malmesbury)

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