• Source: Great Cornish Families

Great Cornish Families: A History of the People and Their Houses is a book by Crispin Gill, published in 1995. 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. The book names many notable families that have featured prominently in Cornwall's history.




Gill's great families


Gill chooses the following families:

The Arundells of Lanherne, Arundells of Trerice
Bassets of Tehidy
Merchant princes, the Bolithos
Boscawens, the Earls of Falmouth, Cornwall
Carew Poles of Anthony
Edgcumbes of Mount Edgcumbe House
The Eliots, Earls of St Germans
Godolphins of Godolphin
The Grenvilles
The Killigrews
Molesworth St Aubyns of Pencarrow
Prideauxs of Padstow
Rashleighs of Menabilly, The Rashleigh baronets
Agar-Robarteses of Lanhydrock
St Aubyns of St Michael's Mount
Treffrys of Fowey
Trelawny of Pelynt
Trevanions
Vivians of Glynn
Vyvyans of Trelowarren
The Mining Williamses
The Penroses of Killiow




Additional families






= Gill's list of important families not included above

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In the introduction to Great families . . . ,: 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

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Trefusis of Trefusis Manor, Flushing, near Falmouth, see Baron Clinton




= Deacon's list of important families

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Bernard Deacon in his History of Cornwall (2007) : 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).: pp160 

*(Source: Who owns Britain ? Archived 27 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine by Kevin Cahill) (Based on Return of Owners of Land, 1873)




See also



Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall
High Sheriff of Cornwall
Landed gentry
Parliamentary representation from Cornwall
Category:Cornish politicians
Cornish heraldry




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