Kinahan Cornwallis

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Kirnahan Cornwallis, GCMG, CBE, DSO was a British administrator and diplomat best known for being an advisor to King Faisal and for being the British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Iraq during the Anglo-Iraqi War. Kinahan Cornwallis was born in the United States and was the son of British poet, writer, and world traveler Kinahan Cornwallis. From 1916 to 1920, Cornwallis was the Director of the Arab Bureau. He had been Deputy Director of the bureau under David Hogarth, a Naval Intelligence officer. The Arab Bureau was created by the British as a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department during the World War I. The bureau was created on the initiative of Mark Sykes and it was meant to make British decision making with regard to Arab affairs more unified and effective. Other members of the Arab Bureau included George Stewart Symes, Philip Graves, Gertrude Bell, Aubrey Herbert, and T. E. Lawrence