Cornish Characters

Cornish Characters

Sabine Baring-Gould, Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar (1834 – 1924)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Preface

- William Pengelly, Geologist

- Sir Charles Wills, K.b

- Lieutenant Goldsmith And The Logan Rock

- Hugh Peters, The Regicide

- James Polkinghorne, The Wrestler

- Henry Trengrouse, Inventor

- The Botathan Ghost

- John Couch Adams, Astronomer

- Johannis Couch Adams

- Daniel Gumb

- Laurence Braddon

- Thomasine Bonaventura

- The Murder Of Nevill Norway

- Sir William Lower, Knt

- The Pirates At Penzance

- Dame Killigrew

- Jane Killygrew

- Two Naturalists In Cornwall

- Sir John Call, Bart

- John Knill

- Thomas Tregoss

- Anthony Payne

- Nevil Northey Burnard

- Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, Knt., Inventor

- The Janes

- The Penningtons

- Doctor Glynn-clobery

- Three Men Of Mousehole

- Dolly Pentreath

- Robert Jeffery Of Polperro

- Admiral Richard Darton Thomas

- Commander John Pollard

- The Case Of Bosavern Penlez

- Samuel Foote

- The Last Lord Mohun

- The Last Lord Camelford

- William Noye

- William Lemon

- Samuel Drew

- The Siege Of Skewis

- The Voyage Of John Sands

- Charles Incledon

- The Murder Of Richard Coryton

- Sir James Tillie, Knt

- Lieutenant John Hawkey

- Dr. Daniel Lombard

- The Dream Of Mr. Williams

- Sir Robert Tresilian

- Pirate Trelawny

- James Silk Buckingham

- Mary Ann Davenport, Actress

- The Royal Family Of Prussia

- Captain Richard Keigwin

- The Loss Of The Kent

- Vice-admiral Sir Charles V. Penrose

- Sir Christopher Hawkins, Bart

- Anne Jefferies

- Thomas Killigrew, The King's Jester

- Nicolas Roscarrock

- Lieutenant Philip G. King

- Hicks Of Bodmin

- Captain Tobias Martin

- The Mayor Of Bodmin

- John Nichols Tom

- The Bohelland Tragedy

- Mary Kelynack

- Captain William Rogers

- John Burton, Of Falmouth

- The Fate Of Sir Cloudesley Shovel

- Francis Tregian

- Ann Glanville

- Jonathan Simpson, Highwayman

- Davies Gilbert

- James Hoskin, Farmer

- John Harris, The Miner Poet

- Edward Chapman

- John Coke, Of Trerice

- Thomas Pellow, Of Penryn

- The Origin Of The Robartes Family

- Theodore Paleologus

- Footnote