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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 (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.
Author | Crispin Gill |
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Language | English |
Published | 1995 (Cornwall Books) |
ISBN | 978-1-87106-025-6 |
OCLC | 37989802 |
Gill chooses the following families:
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":
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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.
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).[9]: pp160
Top landowners in Cornwall 1872* | Acres owned in Cornwall |
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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 ? Archived 27 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine by Kevin Cahill) (Based on Return of Owners of Land, 1873)
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