Notable former pupils Truro Cathedral School

admiral lord exmouth james northcote



sir humphry davy henry howard, 1803



pascoe grenfell martin archer shee

those educated @ school known old truronians , include (in chronological order):

sir edmund prideaux (died 1659), roundhead, member of parliament lyme regis, , solicitor general
samuel enys (1611–1697), royalist , member of parliament penryn
swete nicholas archer, high sheriff of cornwall, 1757
admiral sir richard spry (1715–1775), royal navy commander-in-chief, north america , west indies station , mediterranean fleet
samuel foote (1720–1777), actor , playwright
thomas haweis (1734–1820), clergyman
william macarmick (1742–1815), member of parliament , lieutenant-governor of cape breton colony
jonathan hornblower (1753–1815), pioneer of steam power
colonel john lemon (1754–1814), whig member of parliament truro
admiral edward pellew, 1st viscount exmouth (1757–1833), naval commander of napoleonic wars
francis gregor of trewarthenick (1760–1815), knight of shire cornwall
the rev. richard polwhele (1760–1838), poet , topographer
pascoe grenfell (1761–1838), member of parliament
lieutenant general hussey vivian, 1st baron vivian (1775–1842), peninsular war commander
joseph batten dd frs (1778–1837), principal of east india company college
sir humphry davy (1778–1829), chemist , inventor
general james macarmick, governor of cape breton, canada
fortescue hichins esq., poet, author , historian of cornwall
john vivian esq. (1750-1826), vice-warden of stannaries of cornwall
henry martyn (1781–1812), anglican missionary
nicholas michell (1807–1880), poet
walter hawken tregellas (1831–1894), author
the rev. edward giddy, of tredrea
o. w. tancock (1839–1930), clergyman , author
gerald hocken knight (1908–1979), organist
david mudd (born 1933), conservative member of parliament falmouth , camborne
andrew graham (born 1942), former master of balliol college, oxford
peter grimwade (1942–1990), television writer , director
nick darke (1948–2005), playwright




^ richard polwhele, history of cornwall, civil, military, religious, architectural, agricultural, commercial, biographical, , miscellaneous, vols. 4–7 (michel & co., 1816), p. 66
^ carlisle (1818), p. 151
^ alan harding, countess of huntingdon s connexion: sect in action (2003), p. 54
^ jonathan hornblower ii @ gracesguide.co.uk, accessed 10 april 2012
^ richard polwhele, traditions , recollections: domestic, clerical, , literary (1826), p. 26
^ patricia james, population malthus: life , times (2006), p. 229
^ robert hunt, davy, sir humphry (1778–1829), natural philosopher , in dictionary of national biography (1888)
^ june z. fullmer, young humphry davy: making of experimental chemist (2000), p. 17
^ william henry kearley wright, west-country poets: lives , works (1896) p. 330
^ academy , literature, vol. 45 (1894), p. 475
^ tancock, rev. osborne william, in who (a. & c. black, 1920–2008; online edn, oxford university press, december 2007, accessed 8 april 2012) (subscription required)
^ clive staples lewis, ed. walter hooper, collected letters: narnia, cambridge , joy 1950–1963 (2006), p. 1015: gerald hocken knight (1908–78) educated @ truro cathedral school , peterhouse, cambridge, took ba in 1928.
^ times guide house of commons june 1983 (times books, 1983), p. 122
^ nick darke (obituary) dated 14 june 2005 @ telegraph.co.uk, accessed 8 april 2012