List of residents of 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 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 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 Thandie Newton, actress Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, entomologist Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, naval commander Peter A S Pool, scholar and historian of Penzance[4] Jack Richards, cricketer Edmund Sedding, architect Jean Shrimpton, model John Coulson Tregarthen, writer and naturalist Ethelwynn Trewavas, ichthyologist.[5] Alfred Wallis, painter George Waterhouse, politician

References

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4. "Peter Aubrey Seymour Pool". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
5. Greenwood, Humphry (23 October 2011). "Obituary: Ethelwynn Trewavas". Independent. Retrieved 8 December 2015.