Cornishperson

plural Cornishpeople · plural Cornishpersons

1. A person from Cornwall.

   SO much in love with their own county are Cornishpeople that even in more peaceful days they often stayed in Cornwall for their holidays.

   1942 July 23, “[Whispers and Echoes: […]] Holidays At Home.”, in Cornish Guardian and Cornwall County Chronicle, Eastern edition, volume 42, number 2,167, Bodmin, Cornwall, page 3, column 1

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   A London evening paper, The Glowworm, generally well informed on political and some other matters, has come out this week with some “exclusive information” concerning Cornish mines and miners. “There is,” says our contemporary, “fearful distress in Cornwall,” and—nothing like going from home for home news—“it is mainly attributable to the apathetic nature characteristic of the inhabitants of the West of England.” It may be proof of our apathy to make the admission, but we confess we were not aware that Cornishpeople were particularly apathetic: we never knew they had so distinguished themselves.

   1867 October 10, “[County Events.] The Mines and Miners of Cornwall.”, in The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser, number 3352, Truro, Cornwall, page 5, column 1

   Pointing out that it is difficult to arbitrarily class the Members of Parliament, the writer asks where shall Mr. Fletcher Moulton be placed? This distinguished lawyer—who is probably destined to be in the next Liberal Cabinet—the representative of the Launceston Division, is thus the parliamentary spokesman of the famous “Callington Platform,” probably the only rural programme yet defined by English farmers themselves. This is, perhaps, a fact new to many Cornishpeople. It is eminently a feather in Cornwall’s “cap.”

   1905 January 5, “[Cornish Men and Cornish Matters.] A Cornish Agrarian Politician.”, in West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser, volume XCV, number 4,930, Truro, Cornwall, page 4, column 5

   I wonder how much in the way of foodstuffs is being sent from Cornwall to wealthy folk elsewhere. I know shopkeepers and others who have been asked to send weekly parcels of butter and bacon and other articles of food. And the consequence is that Cornishpeople have to go short.

   1917 December 21, “Pentire” [pseudonym], “[Newquay Notes.] Save or Starve.”, in Cornish Guardian and County Chronicle, volume 17, number 883, Bodmin, Cornwall, page 5, column 2

   There is much that is hard and toilsome in the lives of the poor folk who belong, one feels, to that generation of Cornishpeople that is fast passing away, and their simple philosophy, if too crude to include the broader humanities, has a pathetic charm of its own.

   1926 July 19, “[Literature.] The Cornish Character.”, in The Western Morning News and Western Daily Mercury, number 20,694, Plymouth, Devon; Exeter, Devon, page 9, column 5

   MR. W. H. Lane, of Penzance, spoke on a subject of interest to many Cornishpeople—paying guests at farms—at the South-Western Division of the British Hotels and Restaurants Association, when it opened its first conference at Bournemouth on Thursday.

   1949 January 27, “Guests at Farm Houses: Hotel Keepers Told the Rating Law”, in The Cornishman, Incorporating The Cornish Post, number 5049, Penzance, Cornwall, page 5, column 3