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1748. George Conon (Feb. 25). Eesigned 1771. 

 Cornelius Cardew, D.D., Sfe., (15th. July, 1771). Eesigned 

 19th July, 1805. 



A list of subsequent masters is added, wbich I have com- 

 pleted to date. 



1805. May 23rd, Thomas Hogg. 

 1829. Feb., Dr. John Eyall. 



1837. Nov. 15th, shorn John Tancock, D.C.L. Eesigned 

 Dec, 1848. 



1848. Dec, A. J. W. Morrison, M. A. Resigned June, 1852. 



1852. June 3rd, Samuel Andrew, M.A. Eesigned Michael- 

 mas, 1855. 



1855. July 9th, Charles Durnford Newman, M.A., -who 

 removed his scholars to Fairmantle Street in 1860. Eesigned at 

 Christmas, 1866. 



1866. Dec. 27th, George Henry Whitaker, M.A. 



1874-6. Braithwaite Arnett. 



1877-8. Fred. Millard. 



1878. Lewis Evans, M.A. Eesigned 1886.* 



1886. Mr. Edward Luxmoore, M.A. (the present master, 

 1891), who conducts the school as a private undertaking. 



Of the last two masters ( Conon and Cardew) mentioned by 

 Polwhele, he says " I can speak from personal experience. Both 

 my father and myself were instructed in the principles of religion 

 and the elements of the Greek and Latin tongues, under George 

 Conon, a Scotchman ; a sound grammarian, a Christian, firm in 

 belief, and punctual in practice. He was once (I have heard) 

 an usher at Westminster : at Truro, he was a second Busby. 

 He flogged like Busby, and like Busby taught. "We feared 

 him ; but we loved him. And when, from the infirmities of old 

 age, he was forced to relinquish his charge, we all regretted his 

 departure, with tears ; nor were they, though the tears of child- 

 hood, " forgot as soon as shed." Mr. Conon, appointed to 

 Truro School Feb. 25th, 1748-9, resigned it July 15th, 1771, to 

 the Rev. Cornelius Cardew, and retired to Padstow, where he con- 

 tinued to keep a school, having taken several of his old scholars 

 with him. There he died, on 27th May, 1775, a bachelor, 

 leaving the bulk of his savings to a Mr. Burnet. His epitaph, 



* In 1880 the School was removed to Tregolls, and the old premises were sold 

 in 1887. 



