When John Warcup Cornforth Jr. was born on 7 September 1917, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, his father, John Warcup Cornforth, was 32 and his mother, Hilda Kennedy Eipper, was 30. He married Rita Harriet Harradence in 1941, in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. He died on 8 December 2013, in Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 96, and was buried in Clayton, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom.
English (North Yorkshire and Durham): habitational name from Cornforth in County Durham, named with Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ (see Crane ) + ford ‘ford’.
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