Tredinnick is a

Cornish Cornish is the adjective and demonym associated with Cornwall, the most southwesterly part of the United Kingdom. It may refer to: * Cornish language, a Brittonic Southwestern Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Cornwa ...

surname. It derives from one of the places called Tredinnick; Tredinnick is formed from the elements " tre-" (homestead) and either "dynek" (fortified), "eythynek" (overgrown with gorse) or "redynek" (overgrown with bracken).

People

Notable people with the surname include: *

Alf Tredinnick Alfred Ernest Tredinnick (16 June 1873 – 19 May 1910) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Tredinnick played football for Rovers Football Club in the Western ...

, Australian rules footballer *

David Tredinnick (actor) David Tredinnick is an Australian actor. An experienced actor with a long career in theatre, he is perhaps best known for his regular role as bar owner Simon Trader in the television series '' The Secret Life of Us''. Biography Tredinnick was ...

, Australian actor *

David Tredinnick (politician) David Arthur Stephen Tredinnick (born 19 January 1950) is a British Conservative former Member of Parliament who represented Bosworth in Leicestershire from 1987 to 2019. He is an advocate of alternative medicine, and was chairman of the Al ...

(born 1950), British politician *

Mark Tredinnick Mark Tredinnick (born 1962) is an Australian poet, essayist and teacher. Winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize in 2011 and the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 2012. He is the author of thirteen books, including four vol ...

(born 1962), Australian poet and writer *

Miles Tredinnick Miles Tredinnick, also known as Riff Regan, (born Warrington 18 February 1955) is a rock musician, songwriter and a stage and screenwriter. In the 1970s, he was the lead singer with the British rock band London.Spicer, Al, (2006) ''The Rough Gui ...

(born 1955), English musician, and stage and screenwriter *

Noël Tredinnick Dr Noël Harwood Tredinnick (born 9 March 1949) is a British composer, organist, orchestrator and conductor. He was awarded a Lambeth DMus degree in March 2002. In Queen Elizabeth's Birthday Honours bestowed in 2021, he received a BEM (British E ...

(born 1949), English organist and composer

Settlements

Places in Cornwall called Tredinnick or Tredinneck:

Craig Weatherhill Craig Weatherhill (1950 or 1951 – 18 or 19 July 2020) was a Cornish antiquarian, novelist and writer on the history, archaeology, place names and mythology of Cornwall. Weatherhill attended school in Falmouth, where his parents ran a sport ...

(2009) ''A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names''. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype ; p. 68 Tredinneck (Madron); Tredinnick (Duloe, Landrake, Lanhydrock, Luxulyan, Morval, Newlyn East, Probus, St Issey, St Keverne, St Mabyn and St Neot)

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