Mr Cornwall

In the novel They Came to Baghdad, Mr Cornwall is an employee of Mr Morganthal at the firm of Morganthal, Brown and Shipperke, a firm of international bankers based in New York. At the time of the events in the book, Morganthal's secretary Anna Scheele planned to go on leave but she assured Mr Morganthal that Mr Cornwall would be able to handle the "Ascher merger" in her stead.