List of Cornish historians

This is a list of Cornish people and others resident in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, who are known for their historical writings. Many of them have written almost exclusively about Cornwall.

Historians and scholars

Donald Adamson, author and historian
John Angarrack, historian and activist
Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell, antiquary
Caroline Bammel, ecclesiastical historian and classicist
Sheila Bird, local history writer from Falmouth^[1]
Frederic Boase, librarian and biographer
Thomas Bond, topographer from Looe^[2]
William Borlase, natural historian, antiquary and clergyman
W. J. Burley, novelist and historian
Richard Carew, antiquary
Myrna Combellack, author and academic
Margaret Ann Courtney, collector of folklore
Bernard Deacon, author and academic^[3]
Gilbert Hunter Doble, historian and clergyman
L. C. R. Duncombe-Jewell, historian and writer
Susan Elizabeth Gay, chronicler of Falmouth
William Hals, historian and author
Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin, historian and author
Charles Henderson, historian 1900-33
Fortescue Hitchins, historian
James Jenkins, of Alverton, scholar and writer of verse

John of Cornwall (Iohannes Cornubiensis), 12th century Roman Catholic scholar
John Kitto, biblical scholar
W. S. Lach-Szyrma, historian and clergyman
Sir John Maclean, historian
William Henry Paynter, antiquarian and folklorist
Philip Payton, professor of Cornish studies at the Institute of Cornish Studies
Nicholas Pocock, ecclesiastical historian
Colin Podmore, ecclesiastical historian
Peter Aubrey Seymour Pool, historian and writer^[4]
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (aka 'Q'), author and literary critic^[5]
Ivan Rabey, Cornish historian and writer
Philip Rashleigh, antiquary
Joan Rendell, journalist, historian and collector
A. L. Rowse, historian, poet and Shakespearean scholar
George Smith, historian of Methodism
John Spargo, Cornish-American socialist writer
Rev. Thomas Taylor, historian and scholar of Celtic culture
Charles Thomas, archaeologist and Cornish historian
Thomas Tonkin, Cornish Antiquarian, historian, writer and MP
Walter Hawken Tregellas, writer
Garry Tregidga, historian and folklorist
Raleigh Trevelyan, author and publisher^[6]
Craig Weatherhill, archaeologist, Cornish historian and writer
Degory Wheare, the first Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford

References

^ "Falmouth creature". Retrieved 21 March 2009.
^ John Westby-Gibson, ‘Bond, Thomas (1765–1837)’, rev. Christine North, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 23 Jan 2009
^ Institute of Cornish Studies website - Academic staff biographies - Bernard Deacon Archived 2006-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
^ Pool, P. A. S. Pool. (1974) The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance. Penzance: The Corporation of Penzance.
^ Smith, Michael Douglas (2004) ‘Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller- (1863–1944)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ "Raleigh Trevelyan". Classic Travel Books. Retrieved 16 December 2008.