Great Cornish families

Great Cornish families: a history of the people and their homes is a book by Crispin Gill, published in 1995 Crispin Gill "Great Cornish families: a history of the people and their houses", Tiverton, Cornwall Books (1995). ISBN 1-871060-25-7. A4 landscape format, many illustrations, index, list of sources but no individual references.] .

Gill chooses the following families:
*The great Arundells of Lanherne, Arundells of Trerice
*Bassets of Tehidy
*Merchant princes, the Bolithos [The Bolitho family's growth to prominence started with Thomas Bolitho (1765-1868), The family 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.]
*Boscawens, the Lords of Falmouth, Cornwall
*Carew Poles of Anthony
*Edgcumbes of Mount Edgcumbe
*The Eliots, Earls of St Germans
*The Foxes of Falmouth
*Godolphin of Godolphin
*The Gallant Grenvilles
*The Piratical Killigrews, the Theatrical Killigrews
*Molesworth St Aubyn of Pencarrow
*Prideaux of Padstow
*Rashleighs of Menabilly, The Rashleigh baronets
*Agar-Robartes of Lanhydrock
*St Aubyns of St Michael's Mount
*Treffrys of Fowey
*Shall Trelawny die?
*The romantic Trevanions [Trevanions: Gill cites as source: Rowse, A. L. "The Byrons and Trevanions", 1978.]
*Vivians of Glynn [Glynn of the Vivian family: an estate to the East of Bodmin. It later became a centre for biological research.]
*Vyvyans of Trelowarren
*The Mining Williams

Author

Crispin Gill, at the time of the book's publication lived in Plymouth and was Assistant Editor of the "Western Morning News" rp|Dust jacket blurb [ [http://www.plymouthdata.info/PP-GillCrispin.htm Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History: article on Crispin Gill.] ] .

Additional families

In the introduction to "Great families . . . " rp|pp.i - iv, the following additional potentially great families are mentioned. They were not included in the list as the failed to "found a dynasty":
*Lemon family of Carclew
*Hawkins family of Trewithen
*Tangye family
*Harvey family of Hayle
*Coryton family of Pentille [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-9YHAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA16&lpg=RA1-PA16&dq=%22John+Tillie+Coryton%22&source=web&ots=wBOwWlLxGx&sig=UkVNMmQVuO-kQBtt-ryQchnI20k&hl=en#PRA1-PA16,M1 Pentillie Castle described in "Devonshire & Cornwall illustrated, from original drawings by T. Allom" (1832) p.16-17, on Google Books] .]
*Buller family
*Tremayne family of Heligan
*Carminow family
*Roscarrock family

More families . . .

Bernard Deacon in his "History of Cornwall" (2007) [Bernard Deacon "Cornwall: the Concise History", (The Histories of Europe series) University of Wales Press, (November 2007) ISBN: 978-0-70832032-7 (hardback) 978-0-7083-2031-0 (paperback)] rp|pp.129-131 suggests the following "Merchant bourgoisie" who joined the "Gentry" from the latter part of the 18th Century: Williams, Bolitho, Fox, Daveys of Redruth, Daniells of Truro, Harveys of Gwennap, Fosters of Lostwithiel.

Landowners

Table of Principal Cornish landowners, mid-nineteenth century (ranked)
#Lord Falmouth
#Lord Robartes
#G.M. Fortescue
#G L Basset
#earl of Mt 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"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) [Edwin Jaggard "Cornwall politics in the age of reform 1790-1855", Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, (1999), ISBN 0-86193-243-9.] rp|pp160.

"*(Source: [http://www.who-owns-britain.com/ Who owns Britain ? by Kevin Cahill] )"

ee also

*Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall
*High Sheriff of Cornwall
*Landed gentry
*Parliamentary representation from Cornwall
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