Francis Cornish (diplomat)
Robert Francis Cornish CMG LVO is a retired British diplomat. He has served as the Foreign Office spokesman for Douglas Hurd, Senior Trade Commissioner to Hong Kong, Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macao, head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's news department, and Ambassador to Israel.
Cornish had other diplomatic and royal postings:
Francis Cornish was Chairman of South West Tourism and is now chairman of the Taunton Town Centre Company and has a smallholding in the Quantocks. He is a non-executive director of two property companies.
