Great Cornish Families

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 (ISBN 978-0-85704-083-1). 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.

Great Cornish Families: A History of the People and Their Houses
AuthorCrispin Gill
LanguageEnglish
Published1995 (Cornwall Books)
ISBN978-1-87106-025-6
OCLC37989802

Gill's great families

Gill chooses the following families:

Additional families

Gill's list of important families not included above

In the introduction to Great families . . . ,[1]: pp.i–iv  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":

Other

Deacon's list of important families

Bernard Deacon in his History of Cornwall (2007)[8] : pp.129–131  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)

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]: pp160 

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

References
  1. Crispin Gill (1995). Great Cornish Families: A History of the People and Their Houses (1 ed.). Tiverton: Cornwall Books. ISBN 978-1-87106-025-6. OCLC 37989802.
  2. Moseley, Brian (March 2011). "Ronald Crispin Gill (1916-2004)". The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 16 April 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  3. 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.
  4. Trevanions: Gill cites as source: Rowse, A. L. The Byrons and Trevanions, 1978.
  5. Glynn of the Vivian family: an estate to the east of Bodmin. It later became a centre for biological research.
  6. Pentillie Castle described in Devonshire & Cornwall illustrated, from original drawings by T. Allom (1832) p.16-17, on Google Books.
  7. "Tregoning of Landue, Lezant".
  8. Deacon, Bernard Cornwall: the Concise History, (The Histories of Europe series) University of Wales Press, (November 2007) ISBN 978-0-7083-2032-7 (hardback) 978-0-7083-2031-0 (paperback)
  9. Jaggard, Edwin (1999) Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform 1790–1855. London: Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press ISBN 0-86193-243-9
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