 His son is Adam Cornford, British poet, librettist, and essayist.He was active in politics until into the late 1980s, in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and its offshoot Cambridge Against Missile Bases, and in the environmental movement as a signatory of the Blueprint for Survival and an early member of the Ecology (later Green) Party in the UK.Christopher Francis Cornford was cremated on 19 April 1993 at Cambridge Crematorium.