After he attended school in Berkshire, England as a teenager, Cornwall went to St John's College, Cambridge and the University of London for his post-secondary studies between the 1930s to 1950s.
[2] Other jobs that Cornwall held during the 1930s included working as a teacher and making pharmaceutical drugs.
[6] At Tell es-Sultan, Cornwall sketched the overlapping bones found in each layer and identified which parts of the body they belonged to.
[7] In his 1956 paper, Cornwall theorized about the burial and exhumation practices that occurred with the Tell es-Sultan skeletons.
[5] During the 1960s, some of Cornwall's books included The World of Ancient Man in 1964 and Prehistoric Animals and their Hunters in 1968.