Robert Morton Nance

Robert Morton Nance

male, deceased (1959)
Robert Morton Nance (1873-1959) Born in Cardiff of Cornish parents. Nance moved to Cornwall in 1906 where he lived at the village of Nancledra near...
Ken George

Ken George

male
Ken George is an oceanographer noted as being the originator of Kernewek Kemmyn, a revised spelling for the Cornish language intended to be more...
Philip Payton

Philip Payton

male
Philip Payton is professor of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at Tremough, just...
Arthur Quiller-Couch

Arthur Quiller-Couch

male, deceased (1944)
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (November 21, 1863 - May 12, 1944) was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. Born at Bodmin in...
Brenda Wootton

Brenda Wootton

female, deceased (1994)
Brenda Wootton (1928 - 1994) was famous as a Cornish folk singer and was seen as an ambassador for Cornish tradition and culture. She began her...

Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin

male, deceased (1980)
A. K. Hamilton Jenkin (1900-1980) was best known as a historian with a particular interest in Cornish mining, publishing "The Cornish Miner", now a...
John Coulson Tregarthen

John Coulson Tregarthen

male, deceased (1933)
John Coulson Tregarthen (Penzance, Cornwall, 1854 - 17 February 1933; buried at St Columb Minor, Cornwall) was a British field naturalist,...