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Edward William Wynne Pendarves
1776 - 1853 (77 years)Camborne Liberals: The Pendarves Family - Save Pendarves Quoit, The Giant Woods of St. Ia and Meriasek (Carwynnen, Pendarves and Reen Woods)
http://savependarvesquoitgiantswoods.weebly.com/
Edward William Wynne Stackhouse Pendarves 1775-1853
became an MP for West Cornwall for the Whig cause. He represented the Cornish to abolish the slavery trade and played a prominent role in the early 19th century reforms of Parliament, facing much opposition from High Tories.
'From very early youth and through mature manhood, the advanced and constant defender of civil and religious liberty. In an honoured old age the undeviating and zealous promoter of enlightened and constitutional progress.' 'Historical Descriptions of Camborne' The Cornovia Press, 2013
became an MP for West Cornwall for the Whig cause. He represented the Cornish to abolish the slavery trade and played a prominent role in the early 19th century reforms of Parliament, facing much opposition from High Tories.
'From very early youth and through mature manhood, the advanced and constant defender of civil and religious liberty. In an honoured old age the undeviating and zealous promoter of enlightened and constitutional progress.' 'Historical Descriptions of Camborne' The Cornovia Press, 2013
The Pendarves Family
Bridge to South Drive, now a part of Cornwall Wildlife Trust, Camborne Town Council and The Duchy conservation area.
Introduction
Edward Wynne Pendarves: Advocate of ‘Whig Principle’ and supporter of ‘all..........measures of rational reform’
Royal Cornwall Gazette 25th Aug, 22nd Dec 1832
Over the years, as I have walked around the former Pendarves Estates, I have talked to many local people who had some distant memories of their childhood in the area. From a time when the walls of the estate indicated severe social boundaries, of us and them, to the tragic breakdown of humanity culminating with the Great War, a tragedy that not only saw the breakdown of old social orders but a tortured social desperation of traditional certainties.
It was this that led to a compassion for the traumatised returning soldiers and agreements were made for access to the great estates where these soldiers could walk in peace ‘to breathe the fresh air’ leading to the 1925 Planning Act and the creation of ‘urban common lands.’ As Pendarves Estate decayed the woodlands became a wonderful resource not only for adults but for the children, a great place for learning, playing and solitude.
During the 2nd World War the estates became a base for the preparations of the ‘D’ day landings. Many people I have talked to remember the Americans in the area and ‘road vehicle’s bogged down in mud.’ After the war the interior of Pendarves House caught fire, the shell survived but the building was demolished in 1955.
Many overlapping traumas over time and place become too incomprehensible for our senses, redemption can only be found in the embodiment of compassion, within the organic cycle of creative impulse that leads to greater humanity. That is why memories and the people who care for ‘place’ are so important.
These memories and places are to do with local sensitivities, where people played in their own dramas, dramas where people needed rituals to make sense of tragedies and happiness, leading to insights that enabled greater compassion between people. Understandings and skills grew out of these sympathies, creating beauty within the ‘togetherness’ of our environment.
As a young teenager finding Pendarves woods for the first time in the 1960s my memories are mainly aesthetic and emotional. Searching for the Quoit, seeing Pendarves Farm in its old state and a greater awareness within the woods was my main influence. Being aware of the decay yet the joy of life coming back and the potential for something better in our understandings. Although my concern is with intimate cultural significance I have also played the drama of local politician in the last 12 years and I became more practically and directly involved with Pendarves.
Central to this was Chapel Ia. I had already connections with people who had spiritual insights, be they of ancient origins or the Catholic Christian inheritors. In my imagination this was now a wilderness area, deep valleys of woods leading to wet moors and up the valley sides came pilgrims seeking spirituality, a centre, a togetherness of things. Water was their great inspiration, seeking greater and greater purity. Places of togetherness were understood as holy, of special spiritual significance.
Local historian David Oates asked me to look at the present protections for the Chapel and well site under the new Access laws being introduced in 2000. This led me into the quagmire that is local bureaucracy, institutionalised procedures, power and conflict with defended positions of status and wealth. None of which is of any aesthetic or humane interest to me. But the conflict is that self-interest in the form of power and corruption seeks to destroy that which is creative, destroying all that is sensitive and noble, the roots of ‘togetherness.’
To talk to the owners of the modern Pendarves Farm was to confront what is called ‘hard business corporate structures’ that now runs our land. However, to give credit they did listen to me, they gave time for me to make contacts, to keep the options for the sale of land open. To them I must of seemed like a shaking nervous wreck, but I stood my ground and I think they appreciated me for it.
All this contrasted with the image of the ancient high Treslothan Moors parted by deeply wooded ravines, their beauty lasting in ancient time until the Reformation. With a background of ancient peoples and pilgrims, their spirituality coming together to be expressed by Meriasek and his great ‘Miracle Play’
The Pendarves were the landed gentry, the invaders and conquerers of these lands after the Reformation. They built walls, changed the layout of the ancient roads, moved whole villages and displaced communities. They were the ancestors of today's ‘hard corporate business models’ that have led to so much inhumanity.
It was the Great War that was the beginning of the break-up some of those boundaries of personal insensitivity and intimacy. Humanity became of greater concern than privilege.
But I had forgotten that these privileged families were people too and that they had their own life to tell. I had forgotten that direct blood lines are often broken for many reasons. That they often had many passions that would often breakdown the lines of privilege and they would have genuine concern and interest.
Introduction
Edward Wynne Pendarves: Advocate of ‘Whig Principle’ and supporter of ‘all..........measures of rational reform’
Royal Cornwall Gazette 25th Aug, 22nd Dec 1832
Over the years, as I have walked around the former Pendarves Estates, I have talked to many local people who had some distant memories of their childhood in the area. From a time when the walls of the estate indicated severe social boundaries, of us and them, to the tragic breakdown of humanity culminating with the Great War, a tragedy that not only saw the breakdown of old social orders but a tortured social desperation of traditional certainties.
It was this that led to a compassion for the traumatised returning soldiers and agreements were made for access to the great estates where these soldiers could walk in peace ‘to breathe the fresh air’ leading to the 1925 Planning Act and the creation of ‘urban common lands.’ As Pendarves Estate decayed the woodlands became a wonderful resource not only for adults but for the children, a great place for learning, playing and solitude.
During the 2nd World War the estates became a base for the preparations of the ‘D’ day landings. Many people I have talked to remember the Americans in the area and ‘road vehicle’s bogged down in mud.’ After the war the interior of Pendarves House caught fire, the shell survived but the building was demolished in 1955.
Many overlapping traumas over time and place become too incomprehensible for our senses, redemption can only be found in the embodiment of compassion, within the organic cycle of creative impulse that leads to greater humanity. That is why memories and the people who care for ‘place’ are so important.
These memories and places are to do with local sensitivities, where people played in their own dramas, dramas where people needed rituals to make sense of tragedies and happiness, leading to insights that enabled greater compassion between people. Understandings and skills grew out of these sympathies, creating beauty within the ‘togetherness’ of our environment.
As a young teenager finding Pendarves woods for the first time in the 1960s my memories are mainly aesthetic and emotional. Searching for the Quoit, seeing Pendarves Farm in its old state and a greater awareness within the woods was my main influence. Being aware of the decay yet the joy of life coming back and the potential for something better in our understandings. Although my concern is with intimate cultural significance I have also played the drama of local politician in the last 12 years and I became more practically and directly involved with Pendarves.
Central to this was Chapel Ia. I had already connections with people who had spiritual insights, be they of ancient origins or the Catholic Christian inheritors. In my imagination this was now a wilderness area, deep valleys of woods leading to wet moors and up the valley sides came pilgrims seeking spirituality, a centre, a togetherness of things. Water was their great inspiration, seeking greater and greater purity. Places of togetherness were understood as holy, of special spiritual significance.
Local historian David Oates asked me to look at the present protections for the Chapel and well site under the new Access laws being introduced in 2000. This led me into the quagmire that is local bureaucracy, institutionalised procedures, power and conflict with defended positions of status and wealth. None of which is of any aesthetic or humane interest to me. But the conflict is that self-interest in the form of power and corruption seeks to destroy that which is creative, destroying all that is sensitive and noble, the roots of ‘togetherness.’
To talk to the owners of the modern Pendarves Farm was to confront what is called ‘hard business corporate structures’ that now runs our land. However, to give credit they did listen to me, they gave time for me to make contacts, to keep the options for the sale of land open. To them I must of seemed like a shaking nervous wreck, but I stood my ground and I think they appreciated me for it.
All this contrasted with the image of the ancient high Treslothan Moors parted by deeply wooded ravines, their beauty lasting in ancient time until the Reformation. With a background of ancient peoples and pilgrims, their spirituality coming together to be expressed by Meriasek and his great ‘Miracle Play’
The Pendarves were the landed gentry, the invaders and conquerers of these lands after the Reformation. They built walls, changed the layout of the ancient roads, moved whole villages and displaced communities. They were the ancestors of today's ‘hard corporate business models’ that have led to so much inhumanity.
It was the Great War that was the beginning of the break-up some of those boundaries of personal insensitivity and intimacy. Humanity became of greater concern than privilege.
But I had forgotten that these privileged families were people too and that they had their own life to tell. I had forgotten that direct blood lines are often broken for many reasons. That they often had many passions that would often breakdown the lines of privilege and they would have genuine concern and interest.
In
fact when the direct male line died out again with Grace Pendarves in
the early 18th century the Pendarves estate was handed on to her 3rd
cousin John Stackhouse. John had been to Oxford, studied Marine Biology
in the Mediterranean for 3 years before coming to live at Pendarves.
After marrying Susanna Acton from Shropshire he built Acton Castle, near
Prussia Cove. He built two tunnels from the castle down to the local
cove that has now been named after him. Here he continued to study
seaweed's and marine life. He published his research, beautifully
illustrated, and contributed to several publications.
The romantic side of me reads much between the lines of his love for his wife Susanna. He hoped that the sea air and the seaweed's at Acton Castle would improve her health. He carved out the rocks on the shore a bathing area where she could bath in all the goodness of the seaweed.
Action Castle overlooking Stackhouse Cove and the Tunnels.
John’s son Edward Wynne Pendarves became a politician and stood as a Whig. He must of been much influenced by his father and was given a much more enlightened background from his fathers passion of marine biology and the associated interests and contacts he would of had.
Edward fought hard to represent the Cornish objections to Slavery, gave support to legislation to enable the emancipation of many Catholic restrictions in place and held to many radical reforms of Parliament to bring more representative democracy. In fact when he won the first West Cornwall seat in 1826 he won against Tory supporters such as the Lord De Dunstanville of Tehidy to much acclaim. At the time there was much anxiety that there was a blatant attempt to return to the ’old monopoly’ of former days by the upper gentry. But the Whig Edward Wynne Pendarves was triumphant, after the election the streets from Tuckingmill to Camborne were decorated with branches and flowers lined with enthusiastic crowds who welcomed him, this shows how much local personal esteem he was held in.
Perhaps Camborne should give far more recognition to a reforming MP who stood for many humane causes and his father who, for the time, was a world leading Marine biologist that is now increasingly recognised on an international level.
In many ways Edward Wynne Pendarves overcame the barriers between privilege and humanity.
The beginning of the Pendarves Family.
According to Charles S. Gilbert in his ‘An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall Vol 2, Pat 1 the Pendarves seemed to have descended from the Constantine area near the Helford river . The family seems to of split into two branches one at Roscrowe near Penryn and the other to the area of Pendarves near Camborne. The antiquarian Carew begins with Thomas and his son John who lived at Pendarves and a younger brother called Richard Thomas Pendarves.
There is discussion as to whether the name Pendarves was already established in the area, there are several variants of the name, or whether the area came to be called after the Pendarves family.
The ‘genealogical heraldic History of Great Britain’ by John Burke pub: 1836 starts the family tree with Thomas, his son Alexander d.1640 and who marries Alice Humphries. The direct family male line then continues with Richard b1593-1674 who marries Catherine, daughter of William Arundel esq. of Menedarva.
Richard and Catherine seem to have had many children. William b.1630 becomes next in line. He marries the daughter of Edmund Prideaux in 1683 but they die childless. (Richard’s daughter Dorcas b.1640-1706 also establishes a later line when her great-grandson John Stackhouse inherits the Pendarves title in 1764.)
William is succeeded by his nephew Richard, the son of Richard b1633 and his wife Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Cobbett.
Richard dies young at the age of 21 and the estates and representation are devolved again to his cousin Sir William Pendarves 1689 -1726 and knighted on the 10th of August 1713. The ‘History of Parliament’ lists him as the first Tory MP 1713 - 1715 of the Camborne Pendarves line. (There are also MPs on the Roscrow Pendarves line)
Sir Williams constituency was St.Ives and he was thought of highly enough to make the Worsley list as a Tory. However, he lost at his second attempt to became elected to Parliament in Launceston 1715.
His father was the Rev. Thomas Pendarves, rector to St. Mawgan and St. Columb Major and his mother was Grace, daughter of Robert Heblyn of Nanswhyden.
Sir Willam married Penelope daughter of Sidney Goldolphin and widow of Francis Heblyn of Nanswhyden in 1714. Sir William died at Pendarves on 13th March 1726 aged just 37. They had no children so the estate then passed to his sister Grace 1696 - 1741. She married first Robert Coster and then a second marriage to Samual Percival. Grace had no children and she left her estates to her cousin John Stackhouse.
'Grace was particularly blest with a benign and liberal turn of mind, she founded a school for teaching twelve boys and eight girls, of the poorer sort in this parish, to read, write, and cost accounts, and therefore become more useful in their station.'
John’s Stackhouse Pendarves line goes back again to Richard Pendarves, John’s great-grandmother being Dorcas b.1640-1706 the daughter of Richard b.1593-1674. Dorcas married John Courtney in 1674 . They had one daughter who married John Williams. In 1738 the only surviving daughter of John Williams, Catherine Williams married the Reverend William Stackhouse of St Erme d.1771.
Catherine was descended from Hugh de Courtney 1st Earl of Devon and William’s brother Thomas 1677-1752 was a theologian who wrote the ‘New History of the Holy Bible from the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity.’ Pub: 1742-44
John Stackhouse was Catherine’s and William’s second son.
The romantic side of me reads much between the lines of his love for his wife Susanna. He hoped that the sea air and the seaweed's at Acton Castle would improve her health. He carved out the rocks on the shore a bathing area where she could bath in all the goodness of the seaweed.
Action Castle overlooking Stackhouse Cove and the Tunnels.
John’s son Edward Wynne Pendarves became a politician and stood as a Whig. He must of been much influenced by his father and was given a much more enlightened background from his fathers passion of marine biology and the associated interests and contacts he would of had.
Edward fought hard to represent the Cornish objections to Slavery, gave support to legislation to enable the emancipation of many Catholic restrictions in place and held to many radical reforms of Parliament to bring more representative democracy. In fact when he won the first West Cornwall seat in 1826 he won against Tory supporters such as the Lord De Dunstanville of Tehidy to much acclaim. At the time there was much anxiety that there was a blatant attempt to return to the ’old monopoly’ of former days by the upper gentry. But the Whig Edward Wynne Pendarves was triumphant, after the election the streets from Tuckingmill to Camborne were decorated with branches and flowers lined with enthusiastic crowds who welcomed him, this shows how much local personal esteem he was held in.
Perhaps Camborne should give far more recognition to a reforming MP who stood for many humane causes and his father who, for the time, was a world leading Marine biologist that is now increasingly recognised on an international level.
In many ways Edward Wynne Pendarves overcame the barriers between privilege and humanity.
The beginning of the Pendarves Family.
According to Charles S. Gilbert in his ‘An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall Vol 2, Pat 1 the Pendarves seemed to have descended from the Constantine area near the Helford river . The family seems to of split into two branches one at Roscrowe near Penryn and the other to the area of Pendarves near Camborne. The antiquarian Carew begins with Thomas and his son John who lived at Pendarves and a younger brother called Richard Thomas Pendarves.
There is discussion as to whether the name Pendarves was already established in the area, there are several variants of the name, or whether the area came to be called after the Pendarves family.
The ‘genealogical heraldic History of Great Britain’ by John Burke pub: 1836 starts the family tree with Thomas, his son Alexander d.1640 and who marries Alice Humphries. The direct family male line then continues with Richard b1593-1674 who marries Catherine, daughter of William Arundel esq. of Menedarva.
Richard and Catherine seem to have had many children. William b.1630 becomes next in line. He marries the daughter of Edmund Prideaux in 1683 but they die childless. (Richard’s daughter Dorcas b.1640-1706 also establishes a later line when her great-grandson John Stackhouse inherits the Pendarves title in 1764.)
William is succeeded by his nephew Richard, the son of Richard b1633 and his wife Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Cobbett.
Richard dies young at the age of 21 and the estates and representation are devolved again to his cousin Sir William Pendarves 1689 -1726 and knighted on the 10th of August 1713. The ‘History of Parliament’ lists him as the first Tory MP 1713 - 1715 of the Camborne Pendarves line. (There are also MPs on the Roscrow Pendarves line)
Sir Williams constituency was St.Ives and he was thought of highly enough to make the Worsley list as a Tory. However, he lost at his second attempt to became elected to Parliament in Launceston 1715.
His father was the Rev. Thomas Pendarves, rector to St. Mawgan and St. Columb Major and his mother was Grace, daughter of Robert Heblyn of Nanswhyden.
Sir Willam married Penelope daughter of Sidney Goldolphin and widow of Francis Heblyn of Nanswhyden in 1714. Sir William died at Pendarves on 13th March 1726 aged just 37. They had no children so the estate then passed to his sister Grace 1696 - 1741. She married first Robert Coster and then a second marriage to Samual Percival. Grace had no children and she left her estates to her cousin John Stackhouse.
'Grace was particularly blest with a benign and liberal turn of mind, she founded a school for teaching twelve boys and eight girls, of the poorer sort in this parish, to read, write, and cost accounts, and therefore become more useful in their station.'
John’s Stackhouse Pendarves line goes back again to Richard Pendarves, John’s great-grandmother being Dorcas b.1640-1706 the daughter of Richard b.1593-1674. Dorcas married John Courtney in 1674 . They had one daughter who married John Williams. In 1738 the only surviving daughter of John Williams, Catherine Williams married the Reverend William Stackhouse of St Erme d.1771.
Catherine was descended from Hugh de Courtney 1st Earl of Devon and William’s brother Thomas 1677-1752 was a theologian who wrote the ‘New History of the Holy Bible from the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity.’ Pub: 1742-44
John Stackhouse was Catherine’s and William’s second son.
John Stackhouse 1742 - 1819
Botanist and Classical Scholar
(Primarily interested in Spermatophytes, algae and mycology)
Matriculated 2oth June 1758 from Exeter College, Oxford (appears not to have graduated)
Fellow of Linnean Society 1795
Fellow of Moscow Society
Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford 1761 - 1764
Stackhouse Cove looking toward Cudden Point.
Nereis Britannica; or a Botanical Description of British Marine Plants, in Latin and English, accompanied with Drawings from Nature. By John Stackhouse, Esq, fellow of the Linnean Society. Number II. Folio. 12s 6d, Robinson's. 1797
Tentamen marino-cryptogamicum Bath 1807
Memoires de la Societe Imperile des Naturalistes de Moscou 1809
Illustrationes Theophrasti 1811
Theophrastii Eresii de historia plantarum libri decem 1813-14
De libanoto, smyrna, et balsamo, Theophrasti notitiae 1814
Extracts from Bruce’s travels in Abyssinia, and other modern authorities, respecting the balsam and myrrh trees 1815
Contributions to : Alberto Fortis’s Die cataclismi sofferti dal nostro pianeta, saggio poetico 1786
Coxe’s Literary Life and Select Works of Benjamin Stillingfleet 1811
Abbate Alberto Fortis’s Dei Cataclismi sofferti dal nostro pianeta, saggio poeticco London 1786
Withering’s An Arrangement of British Plants 1796 and 1801
Dawson Turner’s Fuci 1807 -19
Papers in Transactions of the Linnean Society vol 3. 1797 and 5. 1800
Specimans collected by John Stackhouse Pendarves can be found at the Plymouth City Museum under Sir John St. Aubyn’s herbarium.
www.plymouth.gov.uk/museumstaubyncollection See under herbarium tag to left and then under herbarium notes find link to database. Some of John’s specimans are Object number : NH.1991.3.725x Number of specimens : 2 Acorus calamus, L. Acorus calamus Object number : NH.1991.3.730x Number of specimens : 2Typha latifolia Great Catstail Object number : NH.1991.3.401x Number of specimens : 2 Primula farinosa, L.
John resigned his Exeter University Fellowship after he inherited the Pendarves title and estates in 1763. He spent a few years abroad studying the marine biology of the Mediterranean before returning home where he divided his time on his estates at St. Erme and Pendarves.
Before Christmas in 1772 John met and ‘fell in love’ with Susanna Acton 1754-1834, daughter of Edward Acton and Anne Gregory in Shropshire. Susannah was the only child and heiress of the Acton Scott and How Capel estates in Shopshire and Herefordshire, part of the beautiful medieval Manor of Icomb in Gloucestershire.
It is said that in 1773 John and Susanna went out by boat to St. John’s Aubryn’s St. Michael's Mount near Penzance and it was then that they were inspired to build a house between Perranuthnoe and Cudden Point, John could pursue his interest in seaweed's by the coast and they could enjoy the health benefits of being close to the sea together.
They married on 21st 1773 and were based at Pendarves. John brought the lease on the land above what is now known as Stackhouse Cove, just in the shelter or lee of Cudden Point for £46. The lease was the property of the Trevelyan family of Nettlecoombe in Somerset.
As a sign of love for his wife Susanna John requested permission from her father for the use of the family name Acton for the new property he was to build overlooking Cudden Point. So Acton Castle or the ‘Marine Box’ came into being, including basement tanks in which Stackhouse was the first botanist known to have grown marine algae from spores. It was noted that perhaps one of the most important distinctions to John’s work was that he was ‘the first to break away completely from the custom of recognising only the Linnean genera of algae’ (Papenfuss, ‘Classification’,116)
John relied on his own observations and field work. Eventually he divided the British Species of the Linnaean Fucus into sixty-seven genera. John observed that at Stackhouse Cove the ‘rocks at low water have many curious Fuci’. However, much of his classification work is now superseded although highly important historically.
John was very close friends with Sir John St. Aubyn of the Clowence Estate, Praze-an-Beeble a few miles from Pendarves. In the 1790s John gave some of his specimans from his herbarium to Sir John St. Aubyn. Amongst other specimens they can now be found at Plymouth City Museum.
During her life Susanna had suffered health issues and John hoped that the sea air would help her. He carved a ‘sea’ bath out of the rocks so that she could lay in the healing seawater and seaweed's. John’s own health was also declining from rheumatism and gout.
About 1788, it was also noted that the Cornish Pirate Henry Carter once stayed at Acton Castle while he was injured and hiding from the law. His brother John ‘King of Prussia’ rented the adjoining farm and John Stackhouse was away for the winter.
In 1802 John sold Acton Castle to Captain Bulkerley Praed. Pread was Nelson’s navigator at the battle of the Nile.
John and Susanna had five children including Thomas who inherited the estates of Acton Scott in Shropshire and How Capel in Herefordshire and assumed the name of Acton at the death of his mother. He married Francis b.1794-1881 in 1812 the daughter of Thomas Andrew Knight esq. of Downton Castle. Thomas and Francis had no children. However, Francis wrote about local history and archaeology. Apparently she also put down an autobiographical account of her life (Mrs Francis Stackhouse Acton) at the request of her nieces in 1873 held at Bedfordshire County Records office. Her account also includes descriptions of her early school life and the life of people living in village cottages as well as visits she paid to dignitaries such as Humphrey Davy. Francis’s father was the second President of the London Horticultural Society, to become the Royal Horticultural Society.
See: http://www.newman-family-tree.net/Susanna-Acton.html
http://www.newman-family-tree.net/John-Stackhouse.html
The Shropshire and Hereford estates eventually passed onto Thomas Stackhouse Acton (b. 1925), who featured prominently, with his son and heir Francis (b. 1967), in the BBC TV series Victorian Farm, broadcast in 2009. The Home Farm is now operated by Shropshire CC as the Acton Scott Working Farm Museum.
See: Landed families of Britain and Ireland: (17) Acton of Acton Scott
http://www.actonscott.com/historic.php
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ers4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA267&lpg=PA267&dq=william+stackhouse+of+trehane+married+mary+rashleigh&source
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~althea/CHAPTER%20VIII.htm
http://www.smuggling.co.uk/ebooks/carter.html
Botanist and Classical Scholar
(Primarily interested in Spermatophytes, algae and mycology)
Matriculated 2oth June 1758 from Exeter College, Oxford (appears not to have graduated)
Fellow of Linnean Society 1795
Fellow of Moscow Society
Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford 1761 - 1764
Stackhouse Cove looking toward Cudden Point.
Nereis Britannica; or a Botanical Description of British Marine Plants, in Latin and English, accompanied with Drawings from Nature. By John Stackhouse, Esq, fellow of the Linnean Society. Number II. Folio. 12s 6d, Robinson's. 1797
Tentamen marino-cryptogamicum Bath 1807
Memoires de la Societe Imperile des Naturalistes de Moscou 1809
Illustrationes Theophrasti 1811
Theophrastii Eresii de historia plantarum libri decem 1813-14
De libanoto, smyrna, et balsamo, Theophrasti notitiae 1814
Extracts from Bruce’s travels in Abyssinia, and other modern authorities, respecting the balsam and myrrh trees 1815
Contributions to : Alberto Fortis’s Die cataclismi sofferti dal nostro pianeta, saggio poetico 1786
Coxe’s Literary Life and Select Works of Benjamin Stillingfleet 1811
Abbate Alberto Fortis’s Dei Cataclismi sofferti dal nostro pianeta, saggio poeticco London 1786
Withering’s An Arrangement of British Plants 1796 and 1801
Dawson Turner’s Fuci 1807 -19
Papers in Transactions of the Linnean Society vol 3. 1797 and 5. 1800
Specimans collected by John Stackhouse Pendarves can be found at the Plymouth City Museum under Sir John St. Aubyn’s herbarium.
www.plymouth.gov.uk/museumstaubyncollection See under herbarium tag to left and then under herbarium notes find link to database. Some of John’s specimans are Object number : NH.1991.3.725x Number of specimens : 2 Acorus calamus, L. Acorus calamus Object number : NH.1991.3.730x Number of specimens : 2Typha latifolia Great Catstail Object number : NH.1991.3.401x Number of specimens : 2 Primula farinosa, L.
John resigned his Exeter University Fellowship after he inherited the Pendarves title and estates in 1763. He spent a few years abroad studying the marine biology of the Mediterranean before returning home where he divided his time on his estates at St. Erme and Pendarves.
Before Christmas in 1772 John met and ‘fell in love’ with Susanna Acton 1754-1834, daughter of Edward Acton and Anne Gregory in Shropshire. Susannah was the only child and heiress of the Acton Scott and How Capel estates in Shopshire and Herefordshire, part of the beautiful medieval Manor of Icomb in Gloucestershire.
It is said that in 1773 John and Susanna went out by boat to St. John’s Aubryn’s St. Michael's Mount near Penzance and it was then that they were inspired to build a house between Perranuthnoe and Cudden Point, John could pursue his interest in seaweed's by the coast and they could enjoy the health benefits of being close to the sea together.
They married on 21st 1773 and were based at Pendarves. John brought the lease on the land above what is now known as Stackhouse Cove, just in the shelter or lee of Cudden Point for £46. The lease was the property of the Trevelyan family of Nettlecoombe in Somerset.
As a sign of love for his wife Susanna John requested permission from her father for the use of the family name Acton for the new property he was to build overlooking Cudden Point. So Acton Castle or the ‘Marine Box’ came into being, including basement tanks in which Stackhouse was the first botanist known to have grown marine algae from spores. It was noted that perhaps one of the most important distinctions to John’s work was that he was ‘the first to break away completely from the custom of recognising only the Linnean genera of algae’ (Papenfuss, ‘Classification’,116)
John relied on his own observations and field work. Eventually he divided the British Species of the Linnaean Fucus into sixty-seven genera. John observed that at Stackhouse Cove the ‘rocks at low water have many curious Fuci’. However, much of his classification work is now superseded although highly important historically.
John was very close friends with Sir John St. Aubyn of the Clowence Estate, Praze-an-Beeble a few miles from Pendarves. In the 1790s John gave some of his specimans from his herbarium to Sir John St. Aubyn. Amongst other specimens they can now be found at Plymouth City Museum.
During her life Susanna had suffered health issues and John hoped that the sea air would help her. He carved a ‘sea’ bath out of the rocks so that she could lay in the healing seawater and seaweed's. John’s own health was also declining from rheumatism and gout.
About 1788, it was also noted that the Cornish Pirate Henry Carter once stayed at Acton Castle while he was injured and hiding from the law. His brother John ‘King of Prussia’ rented the adjoining farm and John Stackhouse was away for the winter.
In 1802 John sold Acton Castle to Captain Bulkerley Praed. Pread was Nelson’s navigator at the battle of the Nile.
John and Susanna had five children including Thomas who inherited the estates of Acton Scott in Shropshire and How Capel in Herefordshire and assumed the name of Acton at the death of his mother. He married Francis b.1794-1881 in 1812 the daughter of Thomas Andrew Knight esq. of Downton Castle. Thomas and Francis had no children. However, Francis wrote about local history and archaeology. Apparently she also put down an autobiographical account of her life (Mrs Francis Stackhouse Acton) at the request of her nieces in 1873 held at Bedfordshire County Records office. Her account also includes descriptions of her early school life and the life of people living in village cottages as well as visits she paid to dignitaries such as Humphrey Davy. Francis’s father was the second President of the London Horticultural Society, to become the Royal Horticultural Society.
See: http://www.newman-family-tree.net/Susanna-Acton.html
http://www.newman-family-tree.net/John-Stackhouse.html
The Shropshire and Hereford estates eventually passed onto Thomas Stackhouse Acton (b. 1925), who featured prominently, with his son and heir Francis (b. 1967), in the BBC TV series Victorian Farm, broadcast in 2009. The Home Farm is now operated by Shropshire CC as the Acton Scott Working Farm Museum.
See: Landed families of Britain and Ireland: (17) Acton of Acton Scott
http://www.actonscott.com/historic.php
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ers4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA267&lpg=PA267&dq=william+stackhouse+of+trehane+married+mary+rashleigh&source
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~althea/CHAPTER%20VIII.htm
http://www.smuggling.co.uk/ebooks/carter.html
John
and Susanna’s son John died very young at the age of seven in 1782.
Their daughter Catherine married the Rev. William Fowler Holt of Bath
and their daughter Anne Gregor married the Rev. Thomas Coleman rector of
Church Stretton.
With continuing health issues John left his estates and title to his fifth eldest surviving son Edward William Stackhouse in 1804. John retired to Bath where he tried ‘keeping from the air in bad weather & discontinuing totally Malt liquors, & in a great degree, wine’ (Stackhouse to Dawson Turner, 13 April 1809) and died in his home at the Edgar Buildings on 22 November 1819.
Susanna survived him by another twelve years and she died on the 31st 1833. They are both buried at All Saints Church, Weston, Bath together with John’s sister Mary who died at the age of ninety in 1829.
Seaweeds, Srackhouse Cove.
On the 14 November 2013 I walked down to Stackhouse Cove from Penzance and there was a number of students studying marine biology and the life of John Stackhouse (it is said that there have been more recorded marine plant species found at Stackhouse Cove than anywhere else in Great Britain.)
Local Penzance Photographer David Fenwick is undertaking the recording and photography of seaweed species at Stackhouse Cove.
See: https://seaweedindustry.com/.../seaweed-photographer-spotlight-david-fe...
Also www://.natureworkshops.co.uk/2011/11/08/stackhouse-seaweeds-in-a-church/ They are doing a fine job with children to raise the profile of the work and aims of the Marine Conservation Society. The children worked alongside divers to explore the seaweed's of Stackhouse cove. What could be a finer legacy for John Stackhouse Pendarves.
With continuing health issues John left his estates and title to his fifth eldest surviving son Edward William Stackhouse in 1804. John retired to Bath where he tried ‘keeping from the air in bad weather & discontinuing totally Malt liquors, & in a great degree, wine’ (Stackhouse to Dawson Turner, 13 April 1809) and died in his home at the Edgar Buildings on 22 November 1819.
Susanna survived him by another twelve years and she died on the 31st 1833. They are both buried at All Saints Church, Weston, Bath together with John’s sister Mary who died at the age of ninety in 1829.
Seaweeds, Srackhouse Cove.
On the 14 November 2013 I walked down to Stackhouse Cove from Penzance and there was a number of students studying marine biology and the life of John Stackhouse (it is said that there have been more recorded marine plant species found at Stackhouse Cove than anywhere else in Great Britain.)
Local Penzance Photographer David Fenwick is undertaking the recording and photography of seaweed species at Stackhouse Cove.
See: https://seaweedindustry.com/.../seaweed-photographer-spotlight-david-fe...
Also www://.natureworkshops.co.uk/2011/11/08/stackhouse-seaweeds-in-a-church/ They are doing a fine job with children to raise the profile of the work and aims of the Marine Conservation Society. The children worked alongside divers to explore the seaweed's of Stackhouse cove. What could be a finer legacy for John Stackhouse Pendarves.
Seaweeds at Stackhouse Cove.
The rockpools of Stackhouse Cove are rich in seaweeds at low tide.
Stackhouse Tunnel.
One of the tunnels that goes from Stackhouse Cove up to Action Castle.
Unfortunately the seaweed tanks under Acton Castle are now buried under the ground. One was used as a fishpond for a number of years.
One of the tunnels that goes from Stackhouse Cove up to Action Castle.
Unfortunately the seaweed tanks under Acton Castle are now buried under the ground. One was used as a fishpond for a number of years.
Edward William Wynne Stackhouse Pendarves
1775 – 26 June 1853
Member of Parliament (MP) for West Cornwall
(From the creation of the Constituency on 19 December 1832 until 1853)
Member of Committee of Management of the South Western Railway in 1836.
Proprietor of the University of London
Brook’s Club 1827
Harrow 1790-3
Trinity, Oxford 1793
Fellow, All Souls 1796
Edward added Wynne to his title following the family line on his mother’s side, Susanna Action. Her mother Anne was the sole heiress of William Gregory of Woolhope in Shopshire. William married Susanna eldest daughter and co-heir of William Brydges. Susanna’s sister Grace Brydges married William Wynne 1692-1765, Welsh lawyer and Sergent at Law who wrote The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins using papers inherited from his father Owen Wynne (1652-1700) who was a lawyer and civil servant in the seventeenth century. Born in Llechylched, Anglesey, North Wales the family claim descent from Hwfa ap Cynddelw, Lord Llifon in the twelfth century, a part of the 'The fifteen tribes of Gwynedd'
William Wynne 1692-1765 had a son Edward Wynne (1734 –1784) a lawyer and scholar. His inheritance also included his father's library, which contained the collections of Narcissus Luttrell. Wynne had a library of almost 2,800 volumes, including many books on English law and Roman law. He also attempted to explain English legal principles and defend it against charges that it was only interesting to lawyers in his most important work Eunomus, or, Dialogues Concerning the Law and Constitution of England 1768. Edward died as a bachelor.
The library was passed on to Edward's brother the Rev. Luttrell Wynne 1739—1814 under whose direction part of the Library was sold by Leigh and Sotheby in 1786, another part donated to All Souls College, Oxford and the rest was eventually passed onto John Edward Wynne Pendarves who added Wynne in recognition of the inheritance.
Luttrell Was Rector of St. Erme but it seems he was often absent from his parish to pursue his love of painting and sketching on tours around the British Isles. Educated at Eton he studied art under J B Malchair in Oxford.
The Pendarves Library was sold at Sotheby’s in 1936 and some of Luttrell's topographical drawings were sold privately at Sotheby’s in 1958 after Pendarves House was demolished.
Some of Luttrell’s sketch books survive at the British Museum and Cornwall Records Office.
See: cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/luttrell-wynne?
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qf4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA364&lpg=PA364&dq=wynne+pendarves,+cornwall&source=bl&ots=3q5ZBWNsII&sig=QEiXeECFQguXW
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1465543023
Edward Wynne Pendarves married Tryphena in 1814, daughter of the Rev. Browse Twist of Bowden, Devon.
Edward was 39 years of age when he inherited the Pendarves estate in 1819. He seems to of been faced with some financial difficulties in the 1820s when the North Cornwall bank failed. In consequence for a period he had to discharge his servants, limited the extent of his hospitalities and even sold his horses. (R. Cornwall. Gazette 18 Dec 1824)
Politically from 1809 Edward took a prominent role in the Cornish Reform Movement (see The Parliamentary Reform Movement in Cornwall, 1805–1826. Edward Jaggard. G. M. Trevelyan hailed 1832 as the moment at which "'the sovereignty of the people' had been established in fact, if not in law" Trevelyan 1922, at the point some historians have said that the movement laid down the foundations for the democratic state) Although some High Tories (Country party) led the Reform movement because of their disappointment at Wellingtons Ministry to support Catholic emancipation Edward Pendarves seems to have had some Catholic sympathy.
In 1811 Edward took part with friends at meetings for reform at the Freemasons’ Tavern in London. He chaired several county meetings, these included calls for an enquiry into the Peterloo massacre in November 1819 and support for Queen Caroline (Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Caroline Amelia Elizabeth; later Queen Caroline; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821) and the demand for retrenchment and Parliamentary Reform in 1821.
Perhaps one of the best compliments paid to Edward was by the Tory Lord Lieutenant, Lord Mount Edgcumbe who expressed regret that ‘a man of such pleasing manners in society and otherwise so respectable should have taken such an unfortunate line in politics’. (E. Jaggard, ‘Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform, 1790-1885 , 32-40)
Edward was also to be opposed by the Bassets of Tehidy a few miles away (Pendarves Estate lands formerly belonged to Tehidy), Lord de Dunstanville wrote to Pole Carew on 13th September saying he not only opposed him ‘not only on political grounds but because I think he had no pretensions whatever to the distinguished place he wishes to fill.’ he went on to write ‘ it will be a disgrace to have a member forced upon the County by a party chiefly composed of the lower orders.’
However, while the high gentry supported Tories such as Vyvyn and Tremayne the lesser gentry supported Pendarves. There were also still distant family links with such gentry as the Rashleigh's of Menabilly near Fowey (marriage between William Stackhouse b.1740 of Trehane and Mary, daughter of Jonathan Rashleigh of Menabilly in 1770) .
Edward refused to be nominated for the county by-election of 1825. However, he stood as a Whig (‘bred in Whig principles, which were confirmed by long habit) for the General Election of 1826 (19 June 1826. Prime Minister The Earl of Liverpool) as champion of the independent yeomanry against aristocratic dictation. Besides Parliamentary Reform one of his main planks for election was for the gradual abolition of slavery with compensation to the owners. Another concern was the impact of the Corn Laws introduced by the Importation Act 1815 and their effect on free trade. However, once he was elected unopposed he presented a petition from Cornish land owners to maintain the Corn laws.
The West Briton newspaper supported the Reformers and the Royal Gazette supported supported the Tory’s. De Dunstanville was probably not very happy to read in the West Briton of 30th June 1826: ‘The multitude that attended him (Pendarves) to Camborne was immense; there could not be less than between 500 and 600 horsemen, in regular order, bearing at intervals, flags, banners, &c. with suitable mottos.... When the procession advanced to Roskear, a large body of miners made preparations to take the horses from his carriage, for the purpose of drawing it into Camborne. This purpose, however, after much entreaty, Mr. Pendarves prevailed upon them to forego. The appearance of the town on the entrance of the procession was very striking. The houses on both sides of the streets, were shaded by large branches of trees, decked with rose-coloured ribbands; triumphal arches, handsomely decorated, were thrown across in several places. One arch, in the centre of the town, was so constructed as to have seats for a band, which continued to play national airs during the advance of the procession, and after its separation gratified the crowds that thronged the streets to a late hour. As the procession moved forward, the cheering of the multitude at intervals; the pealing of the bells, and the inspiring strains of the numerous instruments produced an effect which those who witnessed it will never forget’
See: ‘The Final Years of Lord de Dunstanville,’ James Whetter, The Cornish Banner November 2013
1775 – 26 June 1853
Member of Parliament (MP) for West Cornwall
(From the creation of the Constituency on 19 December 1832 until 1853)
Member of Committee of Management of the South Western Railway in 1836.
Proprietor of the University of London
Brook’s Club 1827
Harrow 1790-3
Trinity, Oxford 1793
Fellow, All Souls 1796
Edward added Wynne to his title following the family line on his mother’s side, Susanna Action. Her mother Anne was the sole heiress of William Gregory of Woolhope in Shopshire. William married Susanna eldest daughter and co-heir of William Brydges. Susanna’s sister Grace Brydges married William Wynne 1692-1765, Welsh lawyer and Sergent at Law who wrote The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins using papers inherited from his father Owen Wynne (1652-1700) who was a lawyer and civil servant in the seventeenth century. Born in Llechylched, Anglesey, North Wales the family claim descent from Hwfa ap Cynddelw, Lord Llifon in the twelfth century, a part of the 'The fifteen tribes of Gwynedd'
William Wynne 1692-1765 had a son Edward Wynne (1734 –1784) a lawyer and scholar. His inheritance also included his father's library, which contained the collections of Narcissus Luttrell. Wynne had a library of almost 2,800 volumes, including many books on English law and Roman law. He also attempted to explain English legal principles and defend it against charges that it was only interesting to lawyers in his most important work Eunomus, or, Dialogues Concerning the Law and Constitution of England 1768. Edward died as a bachelor.
The library was passed on to Edward's brother the Rev. Luttrell Wynne 1739—1814 under whose direction part of the Library was sold by Leigh and Sotheby in 1786, another part donated to All Souls College, Oxford and the rest was eventually passed onto John Edward Wynne Pendarves who added Wynne in recognition of the inheritance.
Luttrell Was Rector of St. Erme but it seems he was often absent from his parish to pursue his love of painting and sketching on tours around the British Isles. Educated at Eton he studied art under J B Malchair in Oxford.
The Pendarves Library was sold at Sotheby’s in 1936 and some of Luttrell's topographical drawings were sold privately at Sotheby’s in 1958 after Pendarves House was demolished.
Some of Luttrell’s sketch books survive at the British Museum and Cornwall Records Office.
See: cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/luttrell-wynne?
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qf4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA364&lpg=PA364&dq=wynne+pendarves,+cornwall&source=bl&ots=3q5ZBWNsII&sig=QEiXeECFQguXW
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1465543023
Edward Wynne Pendarves married Tryphena in 1814, daughter of the Rev. Browse Twist of Bowden, Devon.
Edward was 39 years of age when he inherited the Pendarves estate in 1819. He seems to of been faced with some financial difficulties in the 1820s when the North Cornwall bank failed. In consequence for a period he had to discharge his servants, limited the extent of his hospitalities and even sold his horses. (R. Cornwall. Gazette 18 Dec 1824)
Politically from 1809 Edward took a prominent role in the Cornish Reform Movement (see The Parliamentary Reform Movement in Cornwall, 1805–1826. Edward Jaggard. G. M. Trevelyan hailed 1832 as the moment at which "'the sovereignty of the people' had been established in fact, if not in law" Trevelyan 1922, at the point some historians have said that the movement laid down the foundations for the democratic state) Although some High Tories (Country party) led the Reform movement because of their disappointment at Wellingtons Ministry to support Catholic emancipation Edward Pendarves seems to have had some Catholic sympathy.
In 1811 Edward took part with friends at meetings for reform at the Freemasons’ Tavern in London. He chaired several county meetings, these included calls for an enquiry into the Peterloo massacre in November 1819 and support for Queen Caroline (Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Caroline Amelia Elizabeth; later Queen Caroline; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821) and the demand for retrenchment and Parliamentary Reform in 1821.
Perhaps one of the best compliments paid to Edward was by the Tory Lord Lieutenant, Lord Mount Edgcumbe who expressed regret that ‘a man of such pleasing manners in society and otherwise so respectable should have taken such an unfortunate line in politics’. (E. Jaggard, ‘Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform, 1790-1885 , 32-40)
Edward was also to be opposed by the Bassets of Tehidy a few miles away (Pendarves Estate lands formerly belonged to Tehidy), Lord de Dunstanville wrote to Pole Carew on 13th September saying he not only opposed him ‘not only on political grounds but because I think he had no pretensions whatever to the distinguished place he wishes to fill.’ he went on to write ‘ it will be a disgrace to have a member forced upon the County by a party chiefly composed of the lower orders.’
However, while the high gentry supported Tories such as Vyvyn and Tremayne the lesser gentry supported Pendarves. There were also still distant family links with such gentry as the Rashleigh's of Menabilly near Fowey (marriage between William Stackhouse b.1740 of Trehane and Mary, daughter of Jonathan Rashleigh of Menabilly in 1770) .
Edward refused to be nominated for the county by-election of 1825. However, he stood as a Whig (‘bred in Whig principles, which were confirmed by long habit) for the General Election of 1826 (19 June 1826. Prime Minister The Earl of Liverpool) as champion of the independent yeomanry against aristocratic dictation. Besides Parliamentary Reform one of his main planks for election was for the gradual abolition of slavery with compensation to the owners. Another concern was the impact of the Corn Laws introduced by the Importation Act 1815 and their effect on free trade. However, once he was elected unopposed he presented a petition from Cornish land owners to maintain the Corn laws.
The West Briton newspaper supported the Reformers and the Royal Gazette supported supported the Tory’s. De Dunstanville was probably not very happy to read in the West Briton of 30th June 1826: ‘The multitude that attended him (Pendarves) to Camborne was immense; there could not be less than between 500 and 600 horsemen, in regular order, bearing at intervals, flags, banners, &c. with suitable mottos.... When the procession advanced to Roskear, a large body of miners made preparations to take the horses from his carriage, for the purpose of drawing it into Camborne. This purpose, however, after much entreaty, Mr. Pendarves prevailed upon them to forego. The appearance of the town on the entrance of the procession was very striking. The houses on both sides of the streets, were shaded by large branches of trees, decked with rose-coloured ribbands; triumphal arches, handsomely decorated, were thrown across in several places. One arch, in the centre of the town, was so constructed as to have seats for a band, which continued to play national airs during the advance of the procession, and after its separation gratified the crowds that thronged the streets to a late hour. As the procession moved forward, the cheering of the multitude at intervals; the pealing of the bells, and the inspiring strains of the numerous instruments produced an effect which those who witnessed it will never forget’
See: ‘The Final Years of Lord de Dunstanville,’ James Whetter, The Cornish Banner November 2013
Here are some of Edward’s arguments and issues he supported in Parliament:
The impact of Copper Ore from South America on Cornish Mines 1827
Presented Redruth petition against duty on coastwise coal. March 6th 1828
Opposed the Duke of Wellington’s Ministry, voting to withdraw grants from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospels in the Colonies. June 6th 1828
Condemned the misapplication of public money for building work at Buckingham House June 23rd 1828
Omit the bill for North American fortifications 7th July 1828
Presented several anti-slavery petitions June 1828
Contradicted Vyvyan’s assertions that anti-Catholic petitions from Cornwall were representative of public opinion, in fact the county was in favour of relief. Edward went on to criticise how some of the meetings were organised and signatures collected. He said that ‘if the people of Cornwall were not excited by fanatical preachers or by inflammatory books or pictures, they would be very well satisfied to leave the settlement of this question to Parliament’. He presented three pro-catholic petitions and ‘divided’ for emancipation. 24th Feb 1829
Defended himself against suggestions by Lord Falmouth that he had forfeited the confidence of his constituents 11 March 1829
Argued that ‘great distress prevails’ in the Pilchard industry 2nd June 1829
Edward maintained that Cornwall received ‘no benefit’ from it’s ‘disproportionate’ representation, as only seven of its members were Cornishman, pointing out that ‘the mines and the fisheries...impose additional duties on its members which can be only fully appreciated by Cornishmen’.
Paired for Jewish emancipation 5th April
Voted for the abolition of the death penalty for forgery 24th May/7th June
Seconded Sir Matthew’s White Ridley’s merchant seaman bill 17th June 1830
At the General Election in the summer of 1930 (9 August 1830)Edward said that was the friend to ‘constitutional government and reform and a ‘enemy to all corrupt or unnecessary expenditure’. Edward seemed to have been a bit modest when he said that he had been little reported because he had no ‘peculiar talent for public speaking’ but had given his ‘constant and unmerited attention’ to parliamentary business. He thought there had been ‘more danger...from refusing than granting’ Catholic emancipation but admitted having felt difficulties on the subject.
He rejoiced that the ‘atrocious attempts to overthrow the liberties of France’ had been defeated. He looked forward to a speedy and......complete revolution’
Edward was returned to Parliament unopposed again with Vyvyan (25 July 1831) He declared he was ‘bound to no party’.
Presented several anti-slavery petitions 1830-1831
Attended county meetings on reform and ‘testified to the progress of Liberal opinions’ Jan 19th 1831
Edward felt that Cornwall’s representation had been ‘reduced a little too low, considering the population and wealth of the county and it’s various interests of mines and fisheries March 21st
He rejected the argument that close corporations formed ‘a part of the settled institutions of the country’ and pointing out that popular chartered rights had often been ‘usurped’ by the corporations which had ‘barted their franchise for a valuable consideration’.
At the next General Election he was at the centre of major arguments between the Whigs and Tories for control of Cornwall.
He thought himself a ‘uniform and zealous supporter’ of the Reform Bill
Edward hoped to unite ‘ the principles of population and property, and secure all the interests of the state by conferring the franchise on the middle classes of society.
Advocated a ‘fair and equitable commutation’ of tithes.
The abolition of the’monstrous evil of slavery’.
Edward was elected head of the poll with one other Whig (29 January 1832. At this election, the Reform Act 1832 gave suffrage to propertied male adults and disenfranchised almost all of the rotten boroughs.) The contest had lasted five days.
Edward continued to act as MP until his demise in June 1853. He left all his estates of Cornwall, Shropshire and Herefordshire to his great-nephew William Cole Wood 1841-1929
William was the son of John Wood and Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Bernard Coleman, Rector of Church Stretton, Shropshire and his wife Anne Gregory, sister of Edward William Wynne Pendarves.
So completing an extraordinary circle of family broken lines, of uncles, aunties, grandparents, nieces and cousins managing somehow to complete the family loop. Sometimes caused by the sadness and traumas of childless marriages, break-ups and early demise. Trauma is something we all share whatever our backgrounds.
See: Terry Jenkins. Ref Volumes: 1820-1832 History of Parliament online.
www.historyofparliamentonline.org › Research › Members › 1820-1832?
The London Gazette, February 14th, 1860
The impact of Copper Ore from South America on Cornish Mines 1827
Presented Redruth petition against duty on coastwise coal. March 6th 1828
Opposed the Duke of Wellington’s Ministry, voting to withdraw grants from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospels in the Colonies. June 6th 1828
Condemned the misapplication of public money for building work at Buckingham House June 23rd 1828
Omit the bill for North American fortifications 7th July 1828
Presented several anti-slavery petitions June 1828
Contradicted Vyvyan’s assertions that anti-Catholic petitions from Cornwall were representative of public opinion, in fact the county was in favour of relief. Edward went on to criticise how some of the meetings were organised and signatures collected. He said that ‘if the people of Cornwall were not excited by fanatical preachers or by inflammatory books or pictures, they would be very well satisfied to leave the settlement of this question to Parliament’. He presented three pro-catholic petitions and ‘divided’ for emancipation. 24th Feb 1829
Defended himself against suggestions by Lord Falmouth that he had forfeited the confidence of his constituents 11 March 1829
Argued that ‘great distress prevails’ in the Pilchard industry 2nd June 1829
Edward maintained that Cornwall received ‘no benefit’ from it’s ‘disproportionate’ representation, as only seven of its members were Cornishman, pointing out that ‘the mines and the fisheries...impose additional duties on its members which can be only fully appreciated by Cornishmen’.
Paired for Jewish emancipation 5th April
Voted for the abolition of the death penalty for forgery 24th May/7th June
Seconded Sir Matthew’s White Ridley’s merchant seaman bill 17th June 1830
At the General Election in the summer of 1930 (9 August 1830)Edward said that was the friend to ‘constitutional government and reform and a ‘enemy to all corrupt or unnecessary expenditure’. Edward seemed to have been a bit modest when he said that he had been little reported because he had no ‘peculiar talent for public speaking’ but had given his ‘constant and unmerited attention’ to parliamentary business. He thought there had been ‘more danger...from refusing than granting’ Catholic emancipation but admitted having felt difficulties on the subject.
He rejoiced that the ‘atrocious attempts to overthrow the liberties of France’ had been defeated. He looked forward to a speedy and......complete revolution’
Edward was returned to Parliament unopposed again with Vyvyan (25 July 1831) He declared he was ‘bound to no party’.
Presented several anti-slavery petitions 1830-1831
Attended county meetings on reform and ‘testified to the progress of Liberal opinions’ Jan 19th 1831
Edward felt that Cornwall’s representation had been ‘reduced a little too low, considering the population and wealth of the county and it’s various interests of mines and fisheries March 21st
He rejected the argument that close corporations formed ‘a part of the settled institutions of the country’ and pointing out that popular chartered rights had often been ‘usurped’ by the corporations which had ‘barted their franchise for a valuable consideration’.
At the next General Election he was at the centre of major arguments between the Whigs and Tories for control of Cornwall.
He thought himself a ‘uniform and zealous supporter’ of the Reform Bill
Edward hoped to unite ‘ the principles of population and property, and secure all the interests of the state by conferring the franchise on the middle classes of society.
Advocated a ‘fair and equitable commutation’ of tithes.
The abolition of the’monstrous evil of slavery’.
Edward was elected head of the poll with one other Whig (29 January 1832. At this election, the Reform Act 1832 gave suffrage to propertied male adults and disenfranchised almost all of the rotten boroughs.) The contest had lasted five days.
Edward continued to act as MP until his demise in June 1853. He left all his estates of Cornwall, Shropshire and Herefordshire to his great-nephew William Cole Wood 1841-1929
William was the son of John Wood and Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Bernard Coleman, Rector of Church Stretton, Shropshire and his wife Anne Gregory, sister of Edward William Wynne Pendarves.
So completing an extraordinary circle of family broken lines, of uncles, aunties, grandparents, nieces and cousins managing somehow to complete the family loop. Sometimes caused by the sadness and traumas of childless marriages, break-ups and early demise. Trauma is something we all share whatever our backgrounds.
See: Terry Jenkins. Ref Volumes: 1820-1832 History of Parliament online.
www.historyofparliamentonline.org › Research › Members › 1820-1832?
The London Gazette, February 14th, 1860
In
many ways Edward represented Cornish interests and the great
Parliamentary reform movements of the 19th century against much
opposition from the High Tory’s of the time. Camborne should be proud
that it has close connections with a family from a Whig/Liberal cause,
the enlightenment of natural history and connections with family members
and other conservation groups, still active, many working with
children. It is a crime, that compared to other movements and great
families they were almost forgotten.
Note: in the Public Houses of Camborne it is often stated that one of the Pendarves had a coffin made of copper and that he would serve punch from it for his friends! However, this is not attributed to one of the Pendarves of ‘Pendarves’ but to Sir William Pendarves 1622-1656 of the Roscrow branch of the family.
Philip C. Hills November 2013 www.savependarvesquoitgiantswoods.weebly.com
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Note: in the Public Houses of Camborne it is often stated that one of the Pendarves had a coffin made of copper and that he would serve punch from it for his friends! However, this is not attributed to one of the Pendarves of ‘Pendarves’ but to Sir William Pendarves 1622-1656 of the Roscrow branch of the family.
Philip C. Hills November 2013 www.savependarvesquoitgiantswoods.weebly.com
If you are over Poldack Mine, Wendron any time, I believe the old Pendarves Clockface is there. See Pendarves Estate clock - no hands but its 1835 always, the ...www.tripadvisor.com › ... › Things to Do in Wendron
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