Nigel Edmund Cornwall CBE, (13 August 1903 – 19 December 1984) was an English clergyman in the Church of England.
[2] He was educated at Marlborough College, where his older brother Alan, a county cricketer for Gloucestershire, was later a housemaster.
Cornwall's first posting abroad came in 1931 when he was appointed chaplain to the Bishop of Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a position he held until 1938.
Thereafter came postings as a missionary priest of the Diocese of Masasi, Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1939–1949, during which time he also served as headmaster of St Joseph's College, Chidya in 1944–1949.
Cornwall was ordained and consecrated a bishop on All Saints' Day (1 November) 1949 at Westminster Abbey[5] by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury,[6] as the first to hold his post (Bishop of Borneo): after the devastation of the Second World War, the Diocese of Labuan and the Bishopric of Sarawak were merged as the Diocese of Borneo.