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a^tituarg 1594. 



By the deatli of Mr. Walter Hawken Tregellas, the Insti- 

 tution has lost one of its most talented and able members, one 

 who took a deep interest in its proceedings, and in all that 

 related to his native county. 



Walter Hawken Tregellas, the eldest son of Mr. John 

 Tabois Tregellas — the author of the well-known Cornish Tales — 

 was born at Truro, on July 10th, 1831 ; and was educated first 

 at Trevarth School, Q-wennap, and afterwards at the Truro 

 Grammar School. He entered the War Office in 1855, and rose 

 gradually to the important post of Chief Draughtsman, to which 

 he was appointed in 1866. 



He retired from the War Office in August, 1893, and was 

 looking forward to devoting his leisure time to those Archaeo- 

 logical pursuits, of which we should have experienced the benefit, 

 had we not been deprived of the harvest of his mature years 

 by his sudden death. It will be in connection with his native 

 county that Mr. Tregellas's name, as an author, will be best 

 remembered. 



In 1878 he wrote a guide to Cornwall for Mr. Stanford's 

 series of guides — concise and terse, yet containing all needful 

 information. No better book can be in the hands of the visitor 

 to the county. 



In 1884 he published his most important contribution to our 

 historical literature, " Cornish Worthies," being sketches of 

 some eminent Cornishmen and families. Here we find the lives 

 of representative Cornishmen, told well and truly — the book is a 

 mine of information, founded on painstaking investigation, 

 interspersed here and there with graphic touches of word 

 painting. 



To the first volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography 

 Mr. Tregellas contributed the lives of many eminent Cornish- 

 men, and for the Art Journal and the Magazine of Art he wrote 

 papers on " The Moorlands ^ud (Jlens of Cornwall," an4 



