George William Cornish (20 October 1873 - 6 February 1959'CORNISH OF ‘THE YARD’ Native of Westbury Dies', Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser, 13 February 1959, page 6) was an English detective who served in the Metropolitan Police.
Life Born in Westbury, Wiltshire and initially working as a farmer, he first joined the Met on its H (Whitechapel) Division on 4 March 1895. His first major case was the investigation into the 1913 Great Pearl Robbery, during which he was a 1st Class Detective Sergeant. He was also involved in that into the Charing Cross Trunk Murder as a Detective Chief Inspector in 1927.
Cornish retired on 1 October 1933 at the rank of Detective Superintendent'MURDER WIZARD TO RETIRE', Daily Mirror, 1 September 1933 and published his memoirs two years later.
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