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] [5].
[edit] Additional families
In the introduction to Great families . . . [1] , the following additional potentially great families are mentioned. They were not included in the list as the failed to "found a dynasty":
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[edit] More families . . .
Bernard Deacon in his History of Cornwall (2007)[7] 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)
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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] .
[edit] See also
- Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall
- High Sheriff of Cornwall
- Landed gentry
- Parliamentary representation from Cornwall
- Category:Cornish politicians
[edit] References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Trevanions: Gill cites as source: Rowse, A. L. The Byrons and Trevanions, 1978.
- ^ Glynn of the Vivian family: an estate to the East of Bodmin. It later became a centre for biological research.
- ^ Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History: article on Crispin Gill.
- ^ Pentillie Castle described in Devonshire & Cornwall illustrated, from original drawings by T. Allom (1832) p.16-17, on Google Books.
- ^ 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)
- ^ Edwin Jaggard Cornwall politics in the age of reform 1790-1855, Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, (1999), ISBN 0-86193-243-9.
