List of Cornish Christians

St Piran (detail of a stained glass window at Truro Cathedral)

St Corentin, pictured on the banner of the parish church of Locronan, Brittany

George Grenfell

Silas Kitto Hocking

Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia

Sam Pollard with two Miao teachers

Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

This is a list of notable Christians from Cornwall, a county of England, in the United Kingdom.

Medieval

• A reputed King of Cornwall named Constantine was venerated in Cornwall as a saint, one of several saints named Constantine known in the Celtic church
• St Corentin, missionary to Brittany^[1]
• John of Cornwall, medieval scholar
• St Petroc, a patron saint of Cornwall and of Devon^[2]
• St Piran, a patron saint of Cornwall and tin miners^[3]
• Michael Tregury, Archbishop of Dublin from 1450 to 1471 and chaplain to Henry VI
• John Trevisa, clergyman and scholar (Middle Ages)
• Thomas Vyvyan (or Vivian), prior of Bodmin and bishop of Megara (Tudor period)

Modern (post-Reformation)

• William Borlase, clergyman, antiquary and naturalist
• William Trewartha Bray, Bible Christian preacher
• William Carvosso, Wesleyan Methodist
• Jack Clemo, blind poet and author from the china clay country
• John William Colenso, bishop of Natal and Zulu advocate
• William Colenso, missionary, botanist, politician, and cousin of John William Colenso
• Blessed John Cornelius, a Catholic priest and Jesuit, beatified in 1929.
• Gilbert Hunter Doble, Anglican clergyman and scholar
• Samuel Drew, Methodist theologian
• George Grenfell, missionary
• Venerable John Hambley (died 1587), an English Catholic and martyr
• Thomas Haweis, a Church of England minister who was a leading figure in the 18th century evangelical revival
• Silas Hocking, author and preacher^[4]
• Joseph Hunkin, Bishop of Truro^[5]
• W. S. Lach-Szyrma, clergyman and scholar
• George Martin, Anglican priest; known as "the modern St Anthony"
• Henry Martyn, Anglican missionary to India
• William O’Bryan, founder of the Bible Christian denomination of Methodism
• John Pendarves, Puritan minister and controversialist
• Catherine Payton Phillips, Quaker minister^[6]
• Sam Pollard, missionary and inventor of the Pollard script
• Gerald Priestland, writer and broadcaster
• John Rogers, biblical scholar, clergyman, geologist & botanist
• Robert Terrill Rundle, Wesleyan Methodist missionary to Canada
• Richard Rutt, Anglican bishop and Cornish bard
• Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, Biblical scholar
• Jonathan Trelawny, Anglican bishop and antagonist of James II^[7]
• Bernard Walke, Anglo-Catholic priest and author of radio plays
• John Whitaker, clergyman and scholar

See also

• Bishop of Cornwall
• Bishop of Truro
• Bishop of St Germans
• List of Cornish saints

References

1. Butler, Alban; Jones, Kathleen; Farmer, David Hugh; Burns, Paul (2000). St Corentin. Butler's Lives of the Saints. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 107. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
2. Caroline Brett, ‘Petroc (fl. 6th cent.)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
3. Caroline Brett, ‘Piran [St Piran] (supp. fl. 6th cent.)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
4. R. G. Burnett, ‘Hocking, Silas Kitto (1850–1935)’, rev. Sayoni Basu, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 16 Dec 2008
5. "Joseph Hunkin in New York". Time, Inc. 1938-02-14. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
6. ODNB article by Gil Skidmore, ‘Phillips, Catherine (1727–1794)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 accessed 24 June 2010.
7. Andrew M. Coleby, ‘Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, third baronet (1650–1721)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 17 Dec 2008