Vanessa Beeman
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Vanessa Beeman was born in Nairobi and at a younger age lived in Tanzania. When visiting Cornwall she stayed with her grandfather, Sidney Hocking, who was Cornish and had Henry Jenner's "A Handbook of the Cornish Language" amongst his Cornish book collection. She studied prehistory at Manchester and Liverpool, and for a Post Graduate Diploma in Education in Wales before teaching at a school in Truro, going on to a post with the Federal Department of Antiquities in Nigeria, and afterwards to teach at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria.
In 1986, she and husband Robert came back to Cornwall to be near her parents. She and her father joined Hilary Shaw's Cornish class in Penryn. The language was a fascination from the beginning and she and her father Kaspar Hocking became Bards in the same year. In 2006 she became the Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow, with the bardic name of "Gwenen".[1]
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