Part III  Cornish People

Emily Hobhouse

41  Emily Hobhouse: Daughter of a St Ive vicar, she became a fighter for human rights in the South African concentration camps.

42  Lord Sydney Godolphin: Lord High Treasurer, politician and diplomat described by Charles II as 'never in the way and never out of the way'.

Ann Treneer

43  Ann Treneer:  Gorran teacher and author of Schoolhouse in the Wind, much admired for her recording of Cornish dialect.

44  Joy Stevenson: St Ives writer, broadcaster and dialect expert, known as 'Maid Lowena'.

45  Silvanus Trevail: 19th century architect from Luxulyan who designed many of Cornwall's great public buildings, often for John Passmore Edwards.

Richard Carew

46  Richard Carew:  High Sheriff of Cornwall, author of the Survey of Cornwall in 1602, in which he wrote 'Cornwall as an entire state, hath at divers time enjoyed sundry titled of a kingdom, principality, duchy and earldom'.

47  Bishop Joseph Hunkin:  Mevagissey-born Bishop of Truro (d 1950).

48  Penlee Lifeboat Crew: Eight men - Trevelyan Richards, James Stephen Madron, Nigel Brockman, John Robert Blewett, Charles Greenhaugh, Kevin Smith, Barrie Torrie and Gary Lee Wallis - who gave their lives on 19 December 1981 in an attempt to save the crew of the Union Star coaster.

Fanny Moody

49  Fanny Moody:  Redruth singer known as the 'Cornish Nightingale', prima donna with the Carla Rosa Opera Company.

50  William Borlase:  Pendeen-born antiquarian and the father of Cornish archaeology during the 18th century, he was vicar of Ludgvan for 50 years and a notable opponent of John Wesley.

51  Neville Northey Burnard:  Altarnun stonemason and sculptor whose busts included Edward VII, Wesley and Thackery.  Feted by London's high society but died a pauper in Redruth.

52  Admiral Edward Boscawen:  Lord Falmouth of Tregothnan, a fearless seaman held in such high regard that when he fell out with the government, a supporter wrote: 'That shall not be.  It would put the very ocean in a storm and the large continent of Cornwall into a rebellion'.

53  Chris Blount:  Newquay broadcaster with BBC Radio Cornwall.

54  Richard Lower:  St Tudy-born fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, who performed the first successful blood transfusion before Charles II and a group of scientists in 1660.

55  Richard Nancekivell:  Rugby ace, credited for changing the course of the 1991 county championship final at Twickenham when Cornwall won.

56 Francis Bassett:  Lord de Dunstanville. Tehidy Mine owner commemorated by monument on Carn Brea.  He was a champion of the Royalist cause during the Civil War.

57  John Harris:  Minor poet and Methodist lay preacher from Troon who worked underground during the mid-19th century and penned some of the most evocative words about the life of Cornish minors, including the Dolcoath, The Mine and Carn Brea.

Ann Glanville

58  Ann Glanville:  Inspirational Saltash rower and ferry operator who travelled to France in 1850 to race, but was told on her arrival that the French crews refused to compete against her.  She would have been an asset at the Olympics!

59  Sir Humphrey Arundell:  Leader of the Prayerbook Rebellion of 1549 who, along with thousands of other Cornish, opposed the imposition of the Book of Common Prayer on the grounds that the Cornish had been accustomed to the Latin Mass and were unable to understand the English text.  Defeated at Exeter and executed.

60   Edward Pellow, Viscount Exmouth: Royal Navy Admiral liberator of slaves who sacked Algiers during the 19th century anti-slavery campaign.

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Part IV
Continuing the 100  Most Famous Cornish People

61  Richard Sharp: Redruth, Conrwall and England rugby ace whose 1960s fly-half skills inspired a generation to take up the game.

62  William Murdoch: Scientist and mining engineer at the forefront of steam locomotion was the first to demonstrate that coal gas could be used for lighting at his house in Redruth.

63  Henry Harvey:  Known as 'Little Cap'n', engineer who built Harvey& Co of Hayle, the business begun by his father John, into pioneering engineering works, exporting boilers engines and pumps throughout the world during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.


64  Alan Opie: International opera star studied at the Guildhall School of Music and has sung with ENglish National Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Glyndebourne and Opera North.

65  Dr John Paris: Penzance geologist and founder of the Royal Cornwall Geological Society who invented Plaster of Paris to arrist in healing of broken bones.

66  Richard Gendall:  Cornish language writer and poet, linguist, folklorist dialectician, songwriter and researcher whose works include A Concise Dictionary of Modern Cornish and Tavas a Ragadazow.

St Cuthbert Mayne

67 St Cuthbert Mayne (1544 - 1577): Catholic priest and martyr arrested at Probus and hung drawn and quartered for his beliefs.

68  Sir Richard Tangye:  Illogan engineering firm owner who championed workers' rights, introducing a nin-hour working day and Saturday half day.

69  James Whetter: Gorran historian, scholar, writer, and founder of the Cornish Nationalist Party.

70  William Lovett: Penzance and Newlyn socialist fighter for sufferage and workers' rights.  Formed the Anti-Militia Association and elected leader of Chartists.  Imprisoned for seditious libel in Warwick Jail, where he wrote Chartism - A New Organisation Of The People. Died in poverty in 1877.

by Alfred Allis

71 Alfred Wallis: St Ives seaman and artist who naïve paintings of boats and the sea inspired Ben Nicholson and the early St Ives painter.

72 Charles Henderson: Historian from Penmount nr Truro whose work included The Antiquities of Cornwall, died suddenly in 1933 before his Parochial History of Cornwall could be published.

Peter Lanyon's

73 Peter Lanyon: Artist born in St Ives in 1918, founder member of Crypt Group and Penwich Society of Arts, president of Newlyn society of Artists, died in a gliding accident in 1964.

74 Bonzo Johns: Redruth rugby legend who holds the all-time record of having played 88 times for Cornwall, international trialist, reserve for England, and honoured by the Barbarians.

75 Dr Philip Payton: Historian, writer and director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, whose works include Cornwall, The Cornish Overseas, The Cornish Miner in Australia, and The Making of Modern Cornwall.

76 Donald Healey: Racing driver, engineer and car manufacturer from Perranporth, who won the Monte Carlo Rally of 1931, established the Donald Healey Motor Company, developed the popular Austin Healy Sprite and Healey 100 sports car, chairman of Jensen Cars, awarded a CBE.

77  Bert Solomon: Redruth, Cornwall and England rugby legend who helped Cornwall to victory in the 1908 county championship final.

78 William Colenso: St Austell-born mathematician and Bishop of Natal who exposed and denounced the oppression of black Africans and was a fierce opponent of the Zulu war.

79  Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin: Redruth historian and one of the founders of the Gorsedd, whose 1945 book – Cornwall And Its People remains a classic.

80  Elizabeth Arden: Born Florence Nightingale Graham at Hayle, she moved to Canada, changed her name and established a company that was at the forefront of manufacturing and marketing beauty products.

For 1 to 60 and 81 to 100 please see other pages.

Part V of the 100 greatest Cornish People
Here are 81 to 100 - and a few other ideas ....

81 Prof Charles Thomas: Historian, archaeologist, writer, former director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, saviour of Gwithian Chapel, whose books include And Shall These Mute Stones Speak? and  Christian Antiquities of Camborne.  (http://cornovia-press.wikidot.com/blog:8)

Anthony Payne

82 Anthony Payne: Standing 7 ft 4 in the ‘Cornish Giant’ born at Stratton in 1612, was retainer to St Bevil Grenville and appointed Halbardier of the Guns by Charles II.

Dean Shipton

83 Dean Shipton: Launceston rugby ace (right) who captained Cornwall for their county championship victory in 1999.

Cookworthy Ware

84 William Cookworthy: First discovered china clay deposits at Breage and began working it at his factory in Plymouth

85 John Charles Williams: Gardener who worked at Caerhays Castle and Tregwainton, credited with introducing camellias to Britain.

86 Samuel Wallis: Lanteglos seafarer who discovered Easter Island and Tahiti, developed the use of Vitamin to fight scurvy and circumnativated the world in 1766 -68

87 Daniel Gumb: Linkinhorne stonemason, mathematician and astrologer who lived at the Cheesewring.

88 Harold Harvey: Penzance-born artist, only native member of The Newlyn School.

'In the Whiting Grounds' by Harold Harvey, c 1900

89 David Prowse: Marazion poet (b1850), whose collection includes Say One For Me.

Silas Kitto Hocking

90 Silas Kitto Hocking: Methodist minister and author, b 1850, from St Stephen in Brannel, first writer to sell a million books.

91 John Carter: Free trader born at Breague and known as ‘The King of Prussia’. (http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/famous-cornish-people/carter.htm and http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/history/people/john_carter.htm) (Where the name of the pub in Fowey comes from?)

92 William O’Bryan: Preacher born at Gunwen near Luxulan, founded the Bible Christians. (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1357223/William-OBryan)

93 Ken Phillipps: Roche dialectician, teacher, scholar, poet, broadcaster, author of Catching Cornwall in Flight.

Ted Gundry

94 Ted Gundry: Broadcaster for BBC Radio Cornwall, see right.

95 Nick Darke: Playwright of Portcothan, author of The King of Prussia and  The Riot.  (http://www.cix.co.uk/~shutters/reviews/99052.htm)

One of his ships

96 Edward Hain: St Ives shipping magnate, town mayor, county councillor, High Sherrif for Cornwall and Liberal-Unionist MP, knighted in 1912.

memorial to James Polkinhorne

97 James Polkinhorne: St Keverne wrestler who became West of England champion in 1826.

98: Loveday Hambley: Religious campaigner from St Tudy known at the ‘Quaker Saint of Cornwall’, she was jailed for refusing to pay church taxes.

the famous ad for Pears' Soap

99 Andrew Pears: Mevagissey-born founder of A F Pears Ltd, first made soap at Lanwhadron, St Ewe, in 1789.

100 William Golding: St Columb Minor novelist, Nobel Prize winner, Booker Prize winner, whose books include Lord of the Flies, and Rites Of Passage.

Here are some also-rans who nearly made it into the top 100:

1. James Silk Buckingham: Cornish author, journalist and traveller (1786 - 1855).
2. Samuel Foote: Dramatist, actor and theatre manager (1720 - 1777)
3. David Gilbert
4. Ann Jefferies (http://brian-haughton.com/articles/anne-jefferies-and-the-fairies/)
5. Lady Elizabeth Treffry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treffry)
6. Augustus Smith: Governor of the Isles of Scilly for over 30 years and largely responsible for the economy of the islands as it is today (lived 1804 - 1872).
7. Nicholas Holman: Founder of Holman Brothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_Brothers)
8. Andrew  George MP
9. Richard Jenkin
10. Robert Were Fox (http://www.quaker.org.uk/robert-were-fox-younger-1789-1877)
11. Lord Vivian
12. Sir Geoffrey Arundel
13. John Trevisa
14. Rowena Cade
15. Hill Bawden
16. Roger Taylor
17. King Hywel
18. Sir Bevil Grenville
19. William Scawen
20. E G Retallack-Hooper
21. Matthew Taylor MP
22. Len Fruran
23. Josiah Thomas
24. Andrew Langdon
25. Samuel Enys
26. G Pawley White
27. Isaac Foot
28. William Bottrell
29. Jane Trevithick (long suffering wife of No 1 – would she have voted him top?)
30. John pardoe
31. Bernard Deakin
32. Bishop Benson
33. Radolphus Tonn
34. Mark Guy Pearse
35. Gary Tregidga
36. Robyn Davies
37. Francis Tregian
38. Mary Kelynack
39. Cormoran
40. Merv Davey
41. Mary Bryant
42. W Tregoning-Hooper
43. Rita Tregellas Pope
44. Joan Rendell
45. Thomasina Bonaventura
46. Pol Hodge
47. Dr Ken George
48. Henry Bone
49. Oliver Foot
50. Charles Lemon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lemon)
51. Claude Berry
52. King Mark
53. Alan M Kent
54. Sir Henry Quick
55. Sir Henry Still
56. Derek Tangye
57. Kenneth Pelmear
58. Paul Laity
59. CC Vyvyan, author.
60. Charles Peach,(http://www.geocurator.org/arch/Curator/Vol7No9.pdf)
61. D M Thomas
62. Mark Kaczmarek
63. Goff Richards
64. Dr John Rowe
65. Freddy Zapp (http://www.freddyzapp.com/)
66. Joe Trewavas
67. Tim Smit
68. Joan the Wad, the Queen of the Piskeys.



Robert Were Fox, No 10 above

perhaps we could make this number up to 100 as well!

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Cornwall and http://www.yor-tec.co.uk/cornwall/famous.htm