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boys whenever lie revisited Truro. The Rev. Edward Giddy of 

 Tredrea (father of Davies Giddy, M.P. for Helston, afterwards 

 Davies Gilbert, P.E.S.) 



The Rev. Dr. Andrew, who was a Fellow of Exeter College, 

 Oct 1741, and Prebendary of Eochester, 1765-1775, was born in 

 the parish of Probus. 



General Macarmich another old pupil, Governor of Cape 

 Breton, who used to give annually three silver medals to those 

 " young gentlemen " who excel in public elocution* At the 

 anniversary of the School meeting, the prizes were assigned by 

 two stewards, the chaplain, and two gentlemen chosen as 

 assistants. 



Colonel Lemon, Sir Edward Pellew, Bart., the gallant naval 

 hero, Viscount Exmouth ; Hope Williams, Gregor of Trewarthenick, 

 M.P. for Cornwall, and Francis Jenkins, the worthy vicar of St. 

 Clements, all of whom did honour to Truro School. " Solicitor 

 Vivian,^ learned in law, was educated here ; also John Arthur, 

 vicar of Little Colan ; Pascoe Grenfell, M.P., to whom Cornwall 

 " looked up, as to one of her first men." Others of the Grenfell 

 family also went to Truro School. Then come the Carlyons — 

 John Carlyon, attorney-at-law, of St. Austell ; 1'homas Carlyon, 

 late fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and Eector of St. 

 Mary's, Truro ; and Clement Carlyon, afterwards a physician at 

 Truro, and thrice Mayor of the old town. 



Kempthorne, son of Admiral Kempthorne, of Helston ; 

 Henry Martyn, Joseph Hallet Batten, fellow of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge. 



Gregor, Carlyon, Kempthorne, Martyn, and Batten all dis- 

 tinguished themselves in mathematics, at Cambridge, though 

 educated in a purely classical school. (It would be invidious, 

 Polwhele thought, to mark their exact places in the lists of Senior 

 Optimes and Wranglers)! The Rev. Tregenna Biddulph, a Cornish 

 author ; Humphry Davy, professor of chemistry in the Eoyal 



* General Macarmick established the medals in 1787, when he was M.P. for 

 Truro. I had been unable to obtain a description of these medals, or any 

 notice of their inscriptions, but have at last found a description of them in Mr. 

 G. C. Boase's valuable "Collectanea Cornubiensia," (1890). Medals were subse. 

 quently presented by the Earl of Falmouth ; of which the writer was so fortunate 

 as to gain two. 



t As a matter of fact both Kempthorne and Martyn were senior wranglers 

 of their respective years. 



