Английская Википедия:Great Cornish Families
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Great Cornish Families: A History of the People and Their Houses is a book by Crispin Gill, published in 1995.[1] A second edition was published in 2011 (Шаблон:ISBN). Crispin Gill, at the time of the book's publication, lived in Plymouth and was assistant editor of the Western Morning News.[1][2] The book names many notable families that have featured prominently in Cornwall's history.
Gill's great families
Gill chooses the following families:
- The Arundells of Lanherne, Arundells of Trerice
- Bassets of Tehidy
- Merchant princes, the Bolithos[3]
- Boscawens, the Earls of Falmouth, Cornwall
- Carew Poles of Anthony
- Edgcumbes of Mount Edgcumbe House
- The Eliots, Earls of St Germans
- Godolphins of Godolphin
- The Grenvilles
- The Killigrews
- Molesworth St Aubyns of Pencarrow
- Prideauxs of Padstow
- Rashleighs of Menabilly, The Rashleigh baronets
- Agar-Robarteses of Lanhydrock
- St Aubyns of St Michael's Mount
- Treffrys of Fowey
- Trelawny of Pelynt
- Trevanions[4]
- Vivians of Glynn[5]
- Vyvyans of Trelowarren
- The Mining Williamses
- The Penroses of Killiow
Additional families
Gill's list of important families not included above
In the introduction to Great families . . . ,[1]Шаблон:Rp the following additional potentially great families are mentioned. They were not included in the list as they were deemed by him to have failed to "found a dynasty": Шаблон:Col-begin Шаблон:Col-break
- Buller family of Morval, Cornwall, later of Downes in Devon.
- Carminow family
- Coryton family of Pentillie[6]
- Fortescue family of Boconnoc
- Harvey family of Hayle
- Hawkins family of Trewithen
- Kendall of Pelyn
- Lemon family of Carclew
- Roscarrock family of St Endellion
- Smith-Dorrien-Smith family of Tresco
- Tangye family
- Tregoning family of Landue, Lezant [7]
- Tremayne family of Heligan
- Trevelyan family
Other
- Trefusis of Trefusis Manor, Flushing, near Falmouth, see Baron Clinton
Deacon's list of important families
Bernard Deacon in his History of Cornwall (2007)[8] Шаблон:Rp suggests the following family names ("merchant bourgeois" who joined the "gentry" from the latter part of the 18th century): Williams, Bolitho, Fox, Davey of Redruth, Daniell of Truro, Harvey of Gwennap, Foster of Lostwithiel.
Landowners
Table of Principal Cornish Landowners, mid-nineteenth century (ranked) Шаблон:Col-begin Шаблон:Col-break
- Lord Falmouth
- Lord Robartes
- G. M. Fortescue
- G. L. Basset
- Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
- C. H. T. Hawkins
- Sir R. R. Vyvyan
- Col. A. Tremayne
- Augustus Coryton
- F. Rodd
- J. M. Williams
- J. J. Rogers
- Earl of St Germans
- Revd A. Molesworth-St Aubyn
- Sir J. Trelawney
- C. P. Brune
- Edward Coode
- Col. S. M. Grylls
Шаблон:Col-end 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).[9]Шаблон:Rp
| Top landowners in Cornwall 1872* | Acres owned in Cornwall |
|---|---|
| Mr Jonathan Rashleigh of Menabilly, Par | 30,156 |
| Viscount Falmouth of Mereworth Castle, Maidstone, Kent | 25,910 |
| Lord Robartes MP of Lanhydrock, Bodmin | 22,234 |
| Mr Cyril Fortescue of Boconnoc, Lostwithiel | 20,148 |
| Mr Gustavus Basset of Tehidy Park, Redruth | 16,969 |
| Earl of Mount Edgcumbe MP of Mount Edgcumbe, Devonport | 13,288 |
| Mr Christopher Hawkins of Trewithen, Probus | 12,119 |
| Mr Francis Thynne of Haynes Park, Bedford | 10,224 |
| Rev Sir Vyell Vyvyan of Trelowarren, Helstone | 9,738 |
| Colonel Arthur Tremayne MP of Carclew, Perranarworthal | 8,823 |
*(Source: Who owns Britain ? by Kevin Cahill) (Based on Return of Owners of Land, 1873)
See also
- Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall
- High Sheriff of Cornwall
- Landed gentry
- Parliamentary representation from Cornwall
- Category:Cornish politicians
- Cornish heraldry
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ The Bolitho family's growth to prominence started with Thomas Bolitho (1765–1868), they 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.
- ↑ Pentillie Castle described in Devonshire & Cornwall illustrated, from original drawings by T. Allom (1832) p.16-17, on Google Books.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Deacon, Bernard Cornwall: the Concise History, (The Histories of Europe series) University of Wales Press, (November 2007) Шаблон:ISBN (hardback) 978-0-7083-2031-0 (paperback)
- ↑ Jaggard, Edwin (1999) Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform 1790–1855. London: Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press Шаблон:ISBN
