Bolitho
| Bolitho | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 The Bolitho Viaduct | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW665415 |
| Location: | 50°13’38"N, 5°16’27"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | TR14 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
Bolitho (pronounced bəlaɪθoʊ)[1] is a small village in western Cornwall, about a mile and a half east of Praze-an-Beeble and close to Crowan, in whose parish it falls.
(There is also a place called Bolitho in the civil parish of Menheniot.)
Bolitho family
The surname 'Bolitho' derives from this place.[2] Some of the Bolithos were ″merchant princes″, the Bolitho family's growth to prominence started with Thomas Bolitho (1765–1868). The family were initially tanners, who moved into lime-burning and tin smelting before becoming bankers. Their bank eventually merged with Barclays in 1905.[3][4][5][6]
The Paschal lamb in the borough arms of Penzance derives from the tin smelting mark used by the Bolithos of Gulval.[7]
The Old Inn, a public house in Gulval Churchtown, was given to the Coldstream Guards Association in memory of Captain Michael Lempriere Bolitho and renamed "The Coldstreamer". Captain Bolitho was killed on HMS Walney, a Royal Navy tug tasked wish crashing through the boom at the entrance to Oran Harbour in Operation Torch on 8 November 1942.
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References
- ↑ Miller, G. M. (1971) BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names. London: Oxford UP; p. 17
- ↑ Bolitho, T. G. G. (1928) The Origin of the Name Bolitho. Paris: Herbert Clarke
- ↑ Cornish magazine and Devon Miscellany
- ↑ Matthews, W. P. History of Barclays Bank.
- ↑ Pool, P. A. S. History of Penzance, 1974.
- ↑ Gill, Crispin (1995) Great Cornish Families: a history of the people and their houses. Tiverton: Cornwall Books ISBN 1-871060-25-7
- ↑ Pascoe, W. H. A Cornish Armory. Padstow: Lodenek Press; pp. 22, 137