Alexander Daniell (12 December 1599 – 12 April 1668) was the sole proprietor of the

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from 1630 until his death in 1668. He was born in

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, the son of Richard Daniel, clothier and citizen of London, and on coming to Cornwall in 1632, lived in rented accommodation until 1639, when a new house was built at Larigan, between Penzance and

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. His notebook gives his income and expenditure (actual years not stated in

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article). In the first year his income is £43 and expenditure £156; the following year his income was £206 and he spends £246; and in the third year income was £181 and expenditure £219. It appears that excess of expenditure over income was the norm. He was interested in the history of the manor and made copies of rent-rolls preserving information on the parishes of

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, and

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as well as Alverton. One of Daniell's manuscripts, known as the ''Rawlinson MSS, class C No 789'' is preserved in the Bodleian Library,

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. He died at his residence on 12 April 1668 and is buried at Madron. The following is inscribed on his tomb:– ''Belgia me Birth, Britain me Breeding gave,''
''Cornwall a wife, ten children, and a grave.''We know the names of three sons: Alexander, Richard and Elias, cf. Henderson Calendar 2, p. 24. Daniel's tomb, along with members of his family, is in the churchyard at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Daniell, Alexander, 1599 births 1668 deaths 17th-century antiquarians 17th-century Dutch people 17th-century English historians Burials in Cornwall Penzance People from Middelburg, Zeeland