George Cornwell

George Cornwell (c. 1825 – c. 1900) was a British railway engineer and building contractor working in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Under the name 'George Cornwell and Co.' Cornwell had previously been involved as contractor in many other major construction works including the Melbourne Grammar School, the Model School, Coppin's Haymarket Theatre, the Sunbury railway goods shed and other Melbourne and Suburban Railway works.

[2] Subsequently, he was a contractor on Parliament House, Albert Park Station, Jack's Magazine[3] and the Wallaby Creek water supply.

His eldest daughter Alice Ann Cornwell was born in 1852 and she married and then left John Whiteman MLA.

In 1883, McColl, a 65-year-old Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, took him to court for alleged assault but the action was unsuccessful.