List of people from Penzance

List of notable residents of Penzance, a town in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

John Noble Barlow, painter
Andrew Ketcham Barnett, mineral collector and dealer
Geoffrey Bazeley, Modernist architect
Peter Care, music video, television and film director
William Colenso, missionary
Richard Quiller Couch, physician and naturalist
Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith, politician, academic and man of letters
William Prideaux Courtney (1845–1913), administrator and scholar^[1]
Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848), poet
Sir Humphry Davy, scientist
John Davy, chemist
John Divane VC, Irish soldier of the 60th Rifles
Gilbert Hunter Doble, clergyman and scholar
Martin Fido, university professor, true crime writer and broadcaster
Sir John Forbes, physician
Simon A. Forward, novelist and dramatist
Alethea Garstin, artist
Crosbie Garstin, poet and novelist^[2]^[3]
Norman Garstin, Irish artist, art critic and journalist
Davies Gilbert, (born Davies Giddy was a Cornish engineer, author, and politician
Helen Glover, Olympic gold medallist rower
Jan Harvey, actress
William Jory Henwood, geologist, retired to live in Penzance

Thomas Holloway, patent medicine vendor and philanthropist
Barbara Hosking, civil servant
Caroline Jackson, MEP
Stanley Johnson, politician, author and father of politician Boris Johnson
Sir John Luke, New Zealand politician, born near Penzance
Ruth Manning-Sanders, poet and author
Daniel Mannix, Australian Roman Catholic bishop
Joshua Mellody, electronic music producer, better known as Zomboy
Thandiwe Newton, actress
Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, entomologist
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, naval commander
William Penhaligon (1837–1902), barber and perfumer
John Ralfs (1807–1890), botanist
Jack Richards, cricketer
Edmund Sedding, architect
Jean Shrimpton, model
John Coulson Tregarthen, writer and naturalist
Ethelwynn Trewavas, ichthyologist.^[4]
Alfred Wallis, painter
George Waterhouse, politician
Lilian Wyles, first female detective in the British police force, died in Penzance.

References

↑ "Family of John Sampson Courtney of Penzance". Retrieved 30 October 2009.
↑ "Crosbie Garstin". Archived from the original on 26 July 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2009.
↑ Smelt, Maurice (2006). Crosbie Garstin. ISBN 9780906720509. Retrieved 9 August 2009.
↑ Greenwood, Humphry (23 October 2011). "Obituary: Ethelwynn Trewavas". Independent. Retrieved 8 December 2015.

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