G. Cornwallis-West

Major George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West (14 November 1874 – 1 April 1951) was a British officer of the Scots Guards who fought in the Boer and First World War. George Cornwallis-West was noted primarily for his marriages, the first to Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill, and the second to the renowned actress Stella Campbell, who was also known on the stage as Mrs. Patrick Campbell. In 1951, after having been afflicted for many years with Parkinson's disease, Cornwallis-West died by his own hand, aged 76 leaving no legitimate children. He wrote a book "Edwardian Hey-Days, Or A Little About A Lot Of Things".