Anne Cornwallis

Anne Cornwallis or Anne, countess of Argyll (1590 – 12 January 1635) was an English Roman Catholic benefactor and one time supposed author. Life Cornwallis was probably born in Suffolk where her parents Lady Lucy and Sir William Cornwallis lived at Brome. She was the cousin of the essayist William Cornwallis. Her name appears on an extant anthology of poems that includes poetry by Edward de Vere and William Shakespeare. Opinion once thought that she had created the anthology but it is now thought to be the work of another and her role was minor. She married Archibald Campbell, the 7th Earl of Argyll, in 1610. She was his second wife and he already had one son (and heir) and six daughters. In January 1610 Argyll argued with the Earl of Pembroke over the precedency of her seating at a dinner hosted by Lady Hatton.