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[edit] June 2008
- Category:University College Falmouth, with sub-categories for alumni and others associated with the college.
- Charles Chorley, journalist and man of letters.
- Mining Exchange, a building in Redruth.
[edit] May 2008
- Edward Budge, writer on the geology of the Lizard.
- William Jordan author of the Cornish language play The Creacion of the World.
- Battle of Stratton, a battle of the English Civil War.
- Kernowek Standard, a new written form of the Cornish language.
- Come, all ye jolly Tinner boys Patriotic Cornish song, possible inspiration for Hawker's The Song of the Western Men.
- Battle of Braddock Down, in the First English Civil War.
- Category:Members of Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall
[edit] April 2008
- Holman Bros Ltd, the famous engineering firm
- Andrew Passmore, material scientist.
- Penryn College, a school in Cornwall.
- Kescusulyans Kernow (Conference of Cornwall), a Cornish think tank.
- David Treffry, colonial servant, international financier and High Sheriff of Cornwall.
- Richard Parkyn, Cornish wrestler.
- St Cleer, a village in Caradon.
- Great Cornish families.
- Edwin Jaggard, historian of the politics of Cornwall, UK in the 19th century.
- Edward Brydges Willyams (1836-1916), MP
[edit] March 2008
- Tregatillian, a hamlet near St Columb Major.
- Cape Cornwall Secondary School.
- Gerry Cawley, Cornish wrestling champion.
- Camborne Hill, the famous Cornish folk song.
- Nine Maidens stone row, a prehistoric monument near St Columb Major.
- Rough Tor, a Cornish hill.
- Week St Mary, a village and civil parish in North Cornwall.
- Porth Reservoir, near Colan.
- Garry Tregidga, an academic at the Institute of Cornish Studies.
- Michael Williams (1784-1858), MP for West Cornwall and owner of Caerhays Castle.
- Edward William Wynne Pendarves (1775 – 1853), MP for West Cornwall.
- John Hearle Tremayne (1780 - 1851) was Tory MP for Cornwall for 20 years.
- Arthur Tremayne (1827 - 1905), Crimean War soldier and Cornish MP, son of J.H. Tremayne.
- Francis Gregor (MP) (1760 - 1815 ), MP for the County of Cornwall.
- Sir William Molesworth, 6th Baronet (1758 - 1798), MP for Cornwall 1784 until 1790.
- Heligan estate, home of the Tremaynes and the "Lost garden".
- Richard Davey (MP) (1799–1884), of Bochym in Cury. MP for West Cornwall for 11 years.
[edit] February 2008
- Bal Maiden, a woman or girl working at a mine.
- Cornish Institute of Engineers
- Ivan Rabey, Cornish historian
- Dobwalls
- Landrake
- River Tiddy
- John Arthur Phillips, geologist, metallurgist and mining engineer, of Polgooth.
- Robert Barclay Fox (1873-1934), Falmouth businessman and Cornish politician.
- Charles Foster Barham, physician, Truro mayor, and President of the RIC.
- Edward Smirke, lawyer and antiquary.
[edit] January 2008
- Rescorla, Cornwall, a village in the heart of Clay Country.
- Pillaton, a vilage and civil parish.
- Humphry Davy School
- Trerulefoot, a village.
- Falmouth Quay Punt
- Flora and fauna of Cornwall
- Transport in Cornwall
- List of foreign-language names for Cornwall
- Thomas Brown Jordan, engineer, of Falmouth, worked with Robert Were Fox the Younger
- Second Cornish Uprising of 1497
- William Oliver (physician), FRS, friend of Ralph Allen and William Borlase, and inventor of the Bath Oliver biscuit.
- Tim Saunders, poet.
- E.G. Retallack Hooper, writer and Grand Bard of Gorseth Kernow.
- Richard Jenkin, Grand Bard and a founder of Mebyon Kernow.
[edit] December 2007
- Cornish and Breton twin towns
- John Ralfs, botanist, of Penzance.
- Arthurite, a mineral discovered at Hingston Down.
- Russellite, a mineral with its type locality in Cornwall.
- Jonathan Couch, of Polperro, naturalist and doctor.
- John Rogers (divine), clergyman and writer on religion, geology and botany.
- John Hawkins (geologist), geologist and traveller.
- Maker-with-Rame, a civil parish in Caradon.
- Philip Rashleigh, mineralogist & MP.
- Howard Fox (1836 - 1922), businessman, natural historian, geologist, of Falmouth.
[edit] November 2007
- Skinner's Bottom. a village.
- Saltash Tunnel - started as a stub.
- Richard Quiller Couch, naturalist.
- Walter Hawken Tregellas, writer, born in Truro.
- Geography of Cornwall - started as a stub.
- Richard Edmonds (scientist), geologist, born and lived in Penzance.
- Matthew Paul Moyle, meteorologist and writer on mining, lived in Helston.
- Elizabeth Catherine Thomas Carne, geologist and philanthropist, born in Phillack.
- Cornish currency, issued by the Revived Stannary Parliament.
- Richard Gurney, claimed to be MP for Tregony, and father of Archer Thompson Gurney.
- Archer Thompson Gurney, clergyman, hymn-writer and poet, born in Tregony.
- Joseph Henry Collins, mining engineer, geologist, and President of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and Royal Institution of Cornwall.
- Mark Guy Pearse, Camborne-born clergyman and writer.
- Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, founded in 1814 for the study of the Geology of Cornwall.
- Anna Maria Fox (1816 – 1897) was promoter of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the artistic and cultural development of Falmouth in Cornwall, UK.
- Sir Charles Graves-Sawle, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament.
[edit] October 2007
- Downderry, a village in south-east Cornwall.
- Category:Cornish novelists
- John Trevanion, Royalist
- Ambrose Manaton, Royalist MP
- Cornwall in the English Civil War
- Lusty Glaze famous beach.
- Timeline of Cornish history
- John Boson (writer) - writer in the Cornish language
- Nicholas Boson - writer in Cornish
- Thomas Boson - writer in Cornish
- Post Office Packet Service, Falmouth was a station, serving the Americas and southern Europe.
- Gus Honeybun famous television rabbit, part of Flambards at Helston.
- John Carne, author and traveller.
- Joseph Carne, geologist and industrialist.
[edit] September 2007
- William Hals, historian.
- Susan Elizabeth Gay, chronicler of Old Falmouth
- Miss Susan Gay's Falmouth chronology
- Philip Melvill, nineteenth century philanthropist of Falmouth, Cornwall
- Cumpas Ltd. is an organisation for promoting Cornish music and dance.
- National Maritime Museum Cornwall, in Falmouth.
- Rooz, album by Dalla.
- Nanstallon, a village in North Cornwall.
[edit] August 2007
- Sladesbridge, a village near Wadebridge.
- Oliver Padel, an authority on the origin and meaning of place-names.
- Bernard Deacon, multidisciplinary academic, based at the Institute of Cornish Studies.
- Churchtown is the settlement in a parish where the church stands.
- Hilary Coleman is a Cornish musician, song-writer and promoter of Cornish culture.
- Fore Street: a name often used for the main street of a town. There are over seventy "Fore Streets" in Cornwall and about twenty-five in Devon.
- Myrna Combellack, academic researcher and writer of the Institute of Cornish Studies, translator of Beunans Meriasek.
- Henry Rolle, MP for Callington and then Truro.
[edit] July, 2007
- The Fox family of Falmouth, influential in the development of the town of Falmouth in the 19th Century and the Cornish Industrial Revolution
- List of Cornish flags --MacRusgail 12:46, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
- Stranger (magazine) - a bi-monthly creative lifestyle magazine based in Falmouth, Cornwall, England that focuses on the alternative, creative, non-metrocentric side of British culture. -- Jreferee (Talk) 07:17, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] June 2007
- St Endellion,a civil parish in North Cornwall.
[edit] May 2007
- Cornish hedge, iconic landscape feature.
- The Cornish Studies Centre (Cornish: Kresenn Kernow) , is in a building called The Cornwall Centre, which it shares with a Tourist Information Centre.
[edit] March 2007
- Joseph Antonio Emidy was a slave in early life, but later became a famous and celebrated violinist and composer.
- Tregellas a tapestry created by a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth
[edit] February, 2007
- Cornish Riviera Express - a Great Western Railway express train from London to Penzance, first introduced in 1904. Geof Sheppard 13:37, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- Benjamin Carvosso, Methodist missionary.
- William Carvosso, Methodist missionary.
[edit] January 2007
- Philip Payton, Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies.
[edit] December, 2006
- Egloskerry, a village in Cornwall
- St Piran's Day - Thought this needed its own article and more in depth look at the celebration now rather than the life of the Saint - Please help me by expanding it!! Reedgunner 09:55, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
- The Institute of Cornish Studies started in 1970/71 as a research centre.
[edit] November, 2006
- Carn Brea -- Neolithic remains between Redruth and Camborne
- Mary Ann Gilbert (c.1776 – April 26, 1845[1]): Agronomist, wife of Davies Gilbert. She was loosely connected with Cornwall. He and their son, John Davies Gilbert of Trelissick were strongly connected.
- Alice Hext (1865 - 1939) of Trebah, philanthropist, garden developer and magistrate.
