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 CORNWALL poet. Furthermore we have Trelawney, one of the "Seven Bishops"; Colenso, the bishop of arithmetic, and Henry Martyn, the missionary. Devon shares the glory of the Grenvilles, for the family was certainly Devonian though its seat was over the Cornish border ; partly Devonian also are the Bullers. More than one member of both families won national fame. There was also more than one eminent Godolphin, Lord Sidney becoming High Treasurer in the reign of Queen Anne. Cornwall can also claim Attorney Noy, Sir John Eliot, Lord Exmouth, Admirals Boscawen and Bligh, Sir Christopher Cole, and many distinguished personages from the families of Trelawney, St. Aubyns, Killigrew, Arundell, Treftry, Molcsworth, Vyvyan, Basset, Trevanion, Slanning, Prideaux, Rashleigh, Carminow, Trefusis and Edgcumbe. The first William Pitt was a Cornishman by birth ; so also were Sir Humphry Davy, the' scientist ; Opie, the painter ; Foote, the comedian ; the poets Jago, Penrose and Wolcot ; the brother- explorers. Lander ; the geologist, Pengelly ; the engineer, Trevithick ; the naturalist and local historian, Jonathan Couch; the chemist, Gurney, and others. Hawker of Morwinstow, often claimed as Cornish, was Devonian. A word is due to General Penn Symons, whose monument was lately unveiled at Saltash. Of late years there has been a revival of literature that by birthright may be called Cornish. Mr. A. T. Quiller-Couch, bearing 52