John Coulson Tregarthen

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John Coulson Tregarthen (Penzance, Cornwall, 1854 - 17 February 1933; buried at St Columb Minor, Cornwall) was a British field naturalist, described as "the best loved Cornishman of his time".

J.C. Tregarthen was President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (1927-29), President of Midland Cornish Association in 1901, Fellow of the Zoological Society, a county councillor and JP, and was made a bard of Gorseth Kernow in 1928, taking the bardic name Den Ylow, ('Musician').

He also spent 20 years as Headmaster at a Grammar school at Stratford on Avon were he was good friends with writers Marie Corelli and Madame Sarah Grand.

He spent his final years at his house called, "Rosemorran" which is in Edgecumbe Gardens, Newquay, Cornwall.

[edit] Works

John Penrose. A Romance of the Land’s End. ISBN 1-904880-02-9

The Life Story of an Otter. ISBN 1-904880-06-1
First published in 1909, this book pre-dated the Henry Williamson novel, Tarka the Otter by nearly twenty years. This natural history classic was republished in 2005

The Life Story of a badger. Published by John Murray (1925) London.

The Life Story of a Fox. Published by A & C Black (1906). One of A & C Black's "Animal Autobiographies" series. This book differs from Tregarthen's other wild life books in that it is not set in the area of The Land's End, and in that it is aimed at the younger reader.

The Story of A Hare. Published by John Murray (1912). Tregarthen dedicated this book to Marie Corelli who had encouraged him to take up writing when he retired as a schoolmaster.

The Smuggler's Daughter. A Romance of Mount's Bay (1933)

Wild life at the Land’s End published by John Murray, London: (1904)