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and had a country seat at " Shyfiok " (Seviock ?) Mrs. Smith, 

 who knew him personally, has described him as a generous gen- 

 tleman, of great fortune, and of religious life. We can well 

 understand that in him, the rev. Samuel Walker, who was then 

 a curate at St. Mary's, would find a willing and earnest helper in 

 his efforts to raise the standard of morals in this "town of 

 dissipation " (Polwhele). Russell's arms were engraved on 

 Thomas Martyn's large map of Cornwall, published in November, 

 1748. 



It is a matter of common observation that for centuries 

 Truro has been favoured by the services of a succession of men 

 whose public spirit, ability, and wealth would have won for 

 them high positions in towns of far greater size and importance. 

 Reference to many of these men has already been made ; but in 

 the long list of mayors, there is no one whose memory is more 

 justly venerated than that of William Lemon — " the great Mr. 

 Lemon," as he was styled. He was made a capital burgess 

 9 October, 1731, and two years later was chosen as an alderman, 

 Stephen Tippett being elected to like positions at the same dates. 

 In 1737 he succeeded Michael Russell as mayor, and in 1750 was 

 again elected, being preceded in the office by Tippett and 

 followed by Russell. His only child, William Lemon the 

 younger, was also a capital burgess, being admitted at the same 

 meeting of the corporation as that in which his father was elected 

 mayor for the second time. In 1755 he succeeded to the chief 

 magistracy, and died two years later, at the early age of 33 years. 

 He gave promise of being a man of great business aptitude, and 

 had he lived, would doubtless have become one of the leading 

 men of Cornwall. 



Hugh Mander was elected a capital burgess with William 

 Lemon and Stephen Tippett on 9 October, 1731, and succeeded John 

 Hussey as town clerk 8 August, 1737. Like him, he held the 

 office of mayor and town clerk simultaneously, being chosen 

 mayor in 1738, and again in 1752 ; in 1740 he was under sheriff. 



The mayors of this period also included Richard Peters, 1730, 

 1739, and 1753, for several years " one of the churchwardens of 

 this borough;" Amos Prowse, 1740, perhajDS a son of John 

 Prowse: and Johnson Yivian, 1741, 1754. 



