Education
Cornford was educated at Street Paul"s School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow from 1899 and held a teaching post from 1902.
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Cornford was educated at Street Paul"s School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow from 1899 and held a teaching post from 1902.
He became Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy in 1931 and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1937. In 1909 Cornford married the poet Frances Darwin, daughter of Sir Francis Darwin and Ellen Wordsworth Darwin, née Crofts, and a granddaughter of Charles Darwin. They had five children:
Helena (1913–1994), married Joseph L. Henderson in 1934.
John (1915–1936), poet and Communist who was killed in the Spanish Civil War.
Christopher (1917–1993), artist and writer
Clare, the mother of Matthew Chapman
Hugh Wordsworth (1921–1997), medical doctor
He was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium on 6 January 1943.