- Silvanus Trevail
Silvanus Trevail (1851 – 1903) was an English
architect of the 19th century.He was born in
Luxulyan ,Cornwall in October 1851 [Best, R. S. "The life and good works of John Passmore Edwards", with an appendix on the architectSilvanus Trevail , who designed nine Passmore Edwards buildings (pp.47-48). Dyllansow Truran (1982) ISBN 0-907566-18-9.] .He rose to become Mayor of
Truro and, nationally, President of the architects' professional body, the Society of Architects.He was Cornwall's most famous
architect , certainly of the 19th Century. Following the Education Act of 1870 which created Board Schools, Trevail designed around fifty such schools throughout the county.He was said to be a man ahead of his time, a campaigner for sanitation improvements and an entrepreneur. His success however, did not bring him happiness. Trevail had a history of depression and had been unwell for some time. In November 1903 he shot himself in the lavatory of a train as it entered Bodmin Road railway station.
References
External links
* [http://www.luxsoft.demon.co.uk/sts/index.html The Silvanus Trevail Society]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series2/newquay_riots_silvanus_trevail_hotel_headland_protest.shtml BBC Inside Out, on Silvanus Trevail and theNewquay riots]
* [http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='silvanus%20trevail') Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Silvanus Trevail]There are biographical references to Silvanus Trevail on the Library & Museum of Freemasonry website, www.freemasonry.london.museum under classmark BE68(Tre)Roy, which contains reference to a copy of the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall for 2001
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