Rory T Cornish

Dr Rory T. Cornish studied at the University of East Anglia, UK, and, Davidson College, USA, and was one of Professor Ian R. Christie's graduate research students at University College London. Relocating to the United States, he became chair of the Department of History and Government at the University of Louisiana, and was later the Chair of the History Department at Winthrop University, South Carolina, which appointed him Emeritus Professor of History following his retirement from teaching in...See more

Dr Rory T. Cornish studied at the University of East Anglia, UK, and, Davidson College, USA, and was one of Professor Ian R. Christie's graduate research students at University College London. Relocating to the United States, he became chair of the Department of History and Government at the University of Louisiana, and was later the Chair of the History Department at Winthrop University, South Carolina, which appointed him Emeritus Professor of History following his retirement from teaching in 2013. The author of George Grenville, 1712-1770: A Bibliography (1992), he was a contributor to 15 other joint publications, including The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). He co-edited Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish American (2005) and later wrote a biography of the Irish-born Confederate general Joseph Finegan for Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, Vol.III (2011). Dr Cornish is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. See less