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MP for the Truro Division of Cornwall, 1892–1895, High Sheriff of Cornwall 1888, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall 1918–1936. [11] Charlotte Williams, daughter of John Michael Williams, married Edward Powys Rogers. The author Clara Coltman Rogers was a daughter and married into the Vyvyan family and inherited Trelowarren. Her parents moved to ...
Saltash was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote rested with the tenants of certain specified properties. For a long period in the 18th century, there was a contest for control of the borough between the government and the Buller family of Morval , depending partly on legal uncertainties over the precise number and identity of the ...
Four of the six Cornish parliamentary seats are currently held by Labour, after having no seats in Cornwall between the 2005 and 2024 general elections.Two are held by the Liberal Democrats since the 2024 election, after previously winning all Cornish constituencies in 2005 then losing three to the Conservatives in 2010, and losing the remaining three to the Conservatives in 2015.
John Williams (born 1736) was an English politician. He was MP for Saltash in 1772. He was the son of John and Sarah Williams, of Nevis, and was baptised on 21 November 1736. [1] He is recorded as being a resident of Brook Street, London, and as having married Charlotte Mary Thornhill on 9 October 1766. [1]
Sheriffs and high sheriffs of Cornwall: a chronological list: The right to choose high sheriffs each year is vested in the Duchy of Cornwall . [ 1 ] The Privy Council , chaired by the sovereign, chooses the sheriffs of all other English counties, other than those in the Duchy of Lancaster .
Scorrier House was built in 1778 by John Williams the 3rd (1753 – 1841), the first son of Michael Williams the 1st (1730 – 1775) and Susanna Harris (died 1814). John Williams was described in 1868 as "one of the most extensive and most successful managers of mines, as well as adventurers, the county ever produced". [3]
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Great Cornish Families: A History of the People and Their Houses is a book by Crispin Gill, published in 1995. [1] A second edition was published in 2011 (ISBN 978-0-85704-083-1).