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Tangye Baronets
The Tangye Baronetcy, of Glendorgal in the parish of St Columb Minor in the County of Cornwall, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 10 July 1912 for the industrialist Harold Tangye. He was the eldest son of the manufacturer Sir Richard Tangye. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1969. Derek and Nigel Tangye were the nephews of the first Baronet. Tangye baronetcy, of Glendorgal (1912) * Sir , 1st Baronet (1866–1935) * Sir , 2nd Baronet (1895–1969) See also * Tangye Tangye is a surname of Breton origin and is common in Cornwall. It may refer to: * Richard Tangye, industrialist (1833–1906) **His son, Sir , 1st Baronet (1866–1935) ***His son, Sir , 2nd Baronet (1895–1969) ** His son, Lt. Colonel O.B.E ... References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tangye Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porth, Cornwall
Porth is a seaside hamlet in the civil parish of Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Porth is near the village of St Columb Minor. It was known as St. Columb Porth, Originally a small port for the village and was known for importing coal, salt, lime and a multitude of general cargoes. The village is to the east of a sandy inlet with the Iron Age promontory fort of Trevelgue Head, on the northern side. History Porth's full name is St Columb Porth (meaning the 'port of St Columb') and it was formerly in the civil parish of St Columb Minor. It has now been incorporated into Newquay civil parish but the ecclesiastical parish of St Columb Minor still exists. St. Columb Porth was a small port and farm settlement before Newquay existed. The long sheltered bay is a drowned river mouth and in the 19th century the tide reached Rialton almost two miles (3 km) inland. This was the port for the village of St. Columb Minor. All the requirements of the village such as coal, salt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Columb Minor
St Columb Minor ( kw, Sen Kolumm Vyghan) (Latin: ''Columba Minor Sancta'') is a village on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. ''St. Columb'' alone by default refers to the nearby St. Columb Major.The village of St Columb Minor dates back to the 11th century, however a settlement existed much earlier under the Manor of Rialton, it has now been encroached upon by its larger neighbour Newquay. The village is still an ecclesiastical parish, St Columb Minor is no longer a civil parish, but forming part of Newquay. The name means ''Holy Malcolm Little'' in the Chonais and is located near the Sea , between Porth and Quintrell Downs, just beside the town of Newquay Parish Church The current church dates from the 15th Century. The site of the Parish Church is probably a very ancient pagan site. Here, long before the St.Columba legend, came the first Celtic missionaries who exorcised evil spirits and they probably erected the first Christian Church which would have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, with the River Tamar forming the border between them. Cornwall forms the westernmost part of the South West Peninsula of the island of Great Britain. The southwesternmost point is Land's End and the southernmost Lizard Point. Cornwall has a population of and an area of . The county has been administered since 2009 by the unitary authority, Cornwall Council. The ceremonial county of Cornwall also includes the Isles of Scilly, which are administered separately. The administrative centre of Cornwall is Truro, its only city. Cornwall was formerly a Brythonic kingdom and subsequently a royal duchy. It is the cultural and ethnic origin of the Cornish dias ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baronetage Of The United Kingdom
Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) James I of England, King James I created the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611, for the settlement of Ireland. He offered the dignity to 200 gentlemen of good birth, with a clear estate of Pound sterling, £1,000 a year, on condition that each one should pay a sum equivalent to three years' pay to 30 soldiers at 8d per day per man (total – £1,095) into the King's Exchequer. The Baronetage of England comprises all baronetcies created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union 1707, Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Baronetage of England and the #Baronetage of Nova Scotia (1625–1706), Baronetage of Nova Scotia were replaced by the #Baronetage of Great Britain, Baronetage of Great Britain. The extant baronetcies ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Tangye
Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye (24 November 183314 October 1906) was a British manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment. Biography Richard Tangye was born at Illogan, near Redruth, Cornwall, the fifth son in a family of six sons and three daughters of Joseph Tangye (1798-1854), a Quaker miner of Redruth, later a small shopkeeper and farmer, and Ann, née Bullock. As a young boy he worked in the fields, but when he was eight years old he was incapacitated from further manual labour by a fracture of the right arm. His father then determined to give him the best education he could afford, and young Tangye was sent to the Quaker Sidcot School in the Mendip Hills near the village of Winscombe, Somerset, where he progressed rapidly and became a pupil-teacher. Career Tangye disliked this role, and through an advertisement in '' The Friend'' obtained a clerkship in a small engineering firm in Birmingham, where two of his brothers, skilled mechanics, subsequently joined him. Here ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Tangye
Derek Alan Trevithick Tangye (29 February 1912 – 26 October 1996) was a British author who lived in Cornwall for nearly fifty years. He wrote nineteen books which became known as ''The Minack Chronicles'', about his simple life on a clifftop daffodil farm called Dorminack, affectionately referred to as Minack, at St Buryan in the far west of Cornwall with his wife Jeannie, née Jean Everald Nicol. The couple had given up sophisticated metropolitan lives, he as a newspaper columnist (during the war years he had worked for MI5) and she as a hotel PR executive, to live in isolation in a simple cottage surrounded by their beloved animals, which featured in nearly all his works. He had two older brothers Nigel Tangye who was also an author and Colin Tangye, a Lloyds Underwriter. Their father was , in turn the son of the engineer Richard Tangye. The first of ''The Minack Chronicles'' was ''A Gull on the Roof'' published in 1961. This was followed by a new book almost every two year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Tangye
Nigel Trevithick Tangye (24 April 1909 – 2 June 1988) was a British airman, novelist, journalist and the writer of various books about Cornwall. He worked for MI5, and later claimed to have been an MI5 agent during the Spanish Civil War. Family He was the brother of the writer Derek Tangye. Their father was , in turn the son of the engineer Richard Tangye. He was married to the actress Ann Todd. Career Born in Kensington, Nigel Tangye started his career in the Royal Navy, spending three years in the Mediterranean having graduated at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He then left the Navy and devoted himself to learning to fly. He soon earned a Professional Pilot's 'B' Licence, the Navigator's Licence and the Air Ministry Instructor's Licence. After that he performed aerobatic demonstrations and worked as a flying instructor at the London Aeroplane Club. As the aviation correspondent for the London ''Evening News'', Tangye covered the Spanish Civil War.Preston, Pau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangye
Tangye is a surname of Breton origin and is common in Cornwall. It may refer to: * Richard Tangye, industrialist (1833–1906) **His son, Sir , 1st Baronet (1866–1935) ***His son, Sir , 2nd Baronet (1895–1969) ** His son, Lt. Colonel O.B.E., JP *** His son Derek Tangye **** Derek's wife Jean Tangye *** His son Nigel Tangye ** His niece, Helena Tangye Lean *** Her son Edward Tangye Lean *** Her son David Tangye Lean, aka David Lean * George Tangye George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd Preside ..., Richard's brother See also * Tangye baronets * Tanguy References Further reading *Scott, Tim, ed. (1999) ''Cornish Connections: the Tangye checklist; Derek Tangye, Jean Nicol-Tangye & Nigel Tangye''; 2nd ed. Wokingham: Cornish Connections / Hare's Ear {{ISBN, 0-951568 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
