Great Cornish families

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Great Cornish families: a history of the people and their homes is a book by Crispin Gill, published in 1995 [1].

Gill chooses the following families:

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[edit] Author

Crispin Gill, at the time of the book's publication lived in Plymouth and was Assistant Editor of the Western Morning News[1] :Dust jacket blurb [5].

[edit] Additional families

In the introduction to Great families . . . [1] :pp.i - iv , the following additional potentially great families are mentioned. They were not included in the list as the failed to "found a dynasty":

[edit] More families . . .

Bernard Deacon in his History of Cornwall (2007)[7] :pp.129-131 suggests the following "Merchant bourgoisie" who joined the "Gentry" from the latter part of the 18th Century: Williams, Bolitho, Fox, Daveys of Redruth, Daniells of Truro, Harveys of Gwennap, Fosters of Lostwithiel.

[edit] Landowners

Table of Principal Cornish landowners, mid-nineteenth century (ranked)

  1. Lord Falmouth
  2. Lord Robartes
  3. G.M. Fortescue
  4. G L Basset
  5. earl of Mt Edgcumbe
  6. C H T Hawkins
  7. Sir R R Vyvyan
  8. Col. A Tremayne
  9. Augustus Coryton
  1. F Rodd
  2. J M Williams
  3. J J Rogers
  4. earl of St Germans
  5. Revd A Molesworth-St Aubyn
  6. Sir J Trelawney
  7. C P Brune
  8. Edward Coode
  9. Col. S M Grylls

Source: Returns of owners of land in England & Wales – House of Commons Sessional papers 1872-3: paper No. 1874 lixxii, quoted in Edwin Jaggard Cornwall politics in the age of reform 1790-1855, (1999) [8]:pp160 .

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Crispin Gill Great Cornish families: a history of the people and their houses, Tiverton, Cornwall Books (1995). ISBN 1-871060-25-7. A4 landscape format, many illustrations, index, list of sources but no individual references.
  2. ^ The Bolitho family's growth to prominence started with Thomas Bolitho (1765-1868), The family were initially tanners, who moved into lime-burning and tin smelting before becoming bankers. Their Bank eventually merged with Barclays in 1905. Gill cites the following references:
    • Cornish magazine and Devon Miscellany
    • Matthews, W P History of Barclays Bank.
    • Pool, P A S History of Penzance, 1974.
  3. ^ Trevanions: Gill cites as source: Rowse, A. L. The Byrons and Trevanions, 1978.
  4. ^ Glynn of the Vivian family: an estate to the East of Bodmin. It later became a centre for biological research.
  5. ^ Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History: article on Crispin Gill.
  6. ^ Pentillie Castle described in Devonshire & Cornwall illustrated, from original drawings by T. Allom (1832) p.16-17, on Google Books.
  7. ^ Bernard Deacon Cornwall: the Concise History, (The Histories of Europe series) University of Wales Press, (November 2007) ISBN: 978-0-70832032-7 (hardback) 978-0-7083-2031-0 (paperback)
  8. ^ Edwin Jaggard Cornwall politics in the age of reform 1790-1855, Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, (1999), ISBN 0-86193-243-9.