Bolitho, Cornwall

Bolitho (/bəˈlaɪθoʊ/ bə-LY-thoh)[1] is a Cornish surname. The Bolitho Family own large estates in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.[2]

"Bolitho" redirects here. For the surname, see Bolitho (surname).

Bolitho
Bolitho
Location within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSW6634
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCamborne
Postcode districtTR14
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western

There is also a place called Bolitho in the civil parish of Menheniot.[3]

Bolitho family

The surname Bolitho derives from this place.[4] Some of the Bolithos were ″merchant princes″, the Bolitho family's growth to prominence started with Thomas Bolitho (1765–1868). The family were initially tanners, who moved into lime-burning and tin smelting before becoming bankers. The Bolitho Bank eventually merged with Barclays in 1905,[5][6][7][8] with William Bolitho becoming the director of Barclays.[9] The arms of Bolitho are "Ermine on a plain chevron five bezants between two chevronels engrailed and three fleurs–de–lis Sable", with the motto "Re deu". The Paschal lamb in the borough arms of Penzance derives from the tin smelting mark used by the Bolithos of Gulval.[10]

The Old Inn, a public house in Gulval Churchtown, was given to the Coldstream Guards Association in memory of Capt. Michael Lempriere Bolitho and renamed "The Coldstreamer" (Capt. Bolitho was killed on HMS Walney, a Royal Navy sloop; her task was to crash through the boom at the entrance to Oran Harbour in Operation Torch on 8 November 1942).

An independent school in Penzance, Bolitho School, closed in 2017.[11]

References
  1. Miller, G. M. (1971) BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names. London: Oxford UP; p. 17
  2. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
  3. Weatherhill, Craig (2009). A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype. ISBN 9781904808220; p. 22
  4. Bolitho, T. G. G. (1928) The Origin of the Name Bolitho. Paris: Herbert Clarke
  5. Cornish magazine and Devon Miscellany
  6. Matthews, W. P. History of Barclays Bank.
  7. Pool, P. A. S. History of Penzance, 1974.
  8. Gill, Crispin (1995) Great Cornish Families: a history of the people and their houses. Tiverton: Cornwall Books ISBN 1-871060-25-7
  9. Stogdon, John Hubert (1925). The Harrow School Register, 1845-1925 (4 ed.). Longmans, Green and Company. p. 519.
  10. Pascoe, W. H. A Cornish Armory. Padstow: Lodenek Press; pp. 22, 137
  11. "Bolitho School in Penzance is to close for good after it failed to attract enough pupils". CornwallLive. Retrieved 15 October 2018.


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