Loveday Carlyon is a
Cornish nationalist politician
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Originally from
Torpoint
Torpoint ( kw, Penntorr) is a civil parish and town on the Rame Peninsula in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated opposite the city of Plymouth across the Hamoaze which is the tidal estuary of the River Tamar.
Torpoint had ...
, Carlyon joined
Mebyon Kernow
Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall (, MK; Cornish for ''Sons of Cornwall'') is a Cornish nationalist, centre-left political party in Cornwall, in southwestern Britain. It currently has five elected councillors on Cornwall Council, and s ...
. She married fellow party member Julyan Holmes, and moved to
Liskeard
Liskeard ( ; kw, Lyskerrys) is a small ancient stannary and market town in south-east Cornwall, South West England. It is situated approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Plymouth, west of the Devon border, and 12 miles (20 km) eas ...
. She was soon elected to the town council, and became a prominent spokesperson for the organisation, in particular commenting on local food production, as a member of the Cornish Association of Smallholders and Producers. Elected leader of Mebyon Kernow in 1986, she was successful in campaigning for the retention of
Cornish language
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translations on road signs around Liskeard.
[Bernard Deakin and Gary Tregidga, ''Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism'', p.131] She stood down as party leader in 1989, but remained politically active, and by 2014 was chair of
St Keyne parish council.
, ''Cornish Times'', 10 January 2014
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Torpoint
Cornish nationalists
Councillors in Cornwall
Mebyon Kernow politicians
Leaders of political parties in the United Kingdom
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