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George Cornwallis-West


 

George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West (1874-1951) was a British officer of the Scots Guards notable for his marriage to the mother of Winston Churchill, Jennie Jerome. He was the only son of Col. William Cornwallis-West and his wife, Mary (Patsy) Fitzpatrick, who was greatly admired by (and before her marriage a teenage mistress of) Edward VII of the United Kingdom.

Further reading

  • Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell, Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill: A Portrait with Letters (London, 1974).