sii24, 2:52AM oy) WixirepiA » YJ theFree Encyclopedia ‘WIKIPEDIA William Borlase \Witam Borase - Wikipedia William Borlase (2 February 1696"! — 31 August 1772), Cornish antiquary, geologist and naturalist. From 1722, he was Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall, where he died. He is remembered for his works The Antiquities of Cornwall (1754; 2nd ed., 1769) and The Natural History of Cornwall (1758), although his plans for a parish-by-parish county history were abandoned. Life and works Borlase was born on 2 February 1695/6"! at Pendeen, of an ancient family originating at St Wenn. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, from 1713, and in 1719 he was ordained. In 1722 he was presented to the rectory of Ludgvan, and in 1732 he obtained in addition Born the vicarage of St Just, his native parish.!2] The garden | Died of the Rectory (now known as Hogus House) was established by Borlase; during the reign of Queen Nationality Victoria the garden was further developed bY @ gins mater successor, Arthur Boscawen, and was known for its fine collection of trees and shrubs. [3] Fields Between 1744 and 1746, Borlase was active against the Methodist preachers in his capacity of magistrate.{4] Various Methodist preachers were seized on warrants issued by him and press-ganged to serve on Royal Navy ships abroad. In John Wesley's Diary there is an account of how Borlase personally laid hands on Wesley, "to serve his majesty", but withdrew when he realised that Wesley was a gentleman.|5! In the parish of Ludgvan were rich copper works, abounding with mineral and metallic fossils, of which he made a collection, and thus was led to study somewhat minutely the natural history of Cornwall. In 1750, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society; and in 1754 he published, at Oxford, his Antiquities of Cornwall William Borlase 2 February 1696") Pendeen, Comwall 31 August 1772 (aged 76) Ludgvan, Comwall British Exeter College, Oxford Scientific career Geologist, naturalist, antiquary New Grimsby harbour, from Obser son the Ancient and Present State of the Scilly, and their Importance to the Trade of Great Britain (2nd ed., London, 1769).!4! His next publication was Observations on the Ancient and Present State bitpsen wikipedia orgwikiWiliam_Borlase 18‘1a24, 282 0M Witla Borie - Wikipedia of the Islands of Scilly, and their Importance to the Trade of Great Britain (Oxford, 1756).21 In 1758 there appeared his Natural History of Cornwall which includes a chapter on the inhabitants and their native language (about one ninth of the whole).!) He presented to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, a variety of fossils and antiquities, which he had described in his works, and received the thanks of the university and the degree of Doctor of Civil Law./4] Borlase was well acquainted with most of the leading literary men of the time, particularly with Alexander Pope, with whom he kept up a long correspondence, and for whose grotto at Twickenham he furnished the greater part of the fossils and minerals.!2! He also sent collections of mineral and fossil specimens to Dr William Oliver and to a number of natural historians in Europe. Family and character In 1724, William Borlase married Anne Smith, The couple had six sons, of whom two died in infancy. Of the remaining four, three became churchmen. Anne Borlase died in 1769. Borlase's elder brother was Walter Borlase, who served as vicar of Madron, and also as mayor of Penzance. His great-great- grandson was William Copeland Borlase (1848-1899), an antiquarian who was influenced by his ancestor's archaeological work. Borlase was a conscientious minister to his parishioners, politically conservati painter. Some of his papers are preserved in Penzance at the Morrab Library.!7! , and an amateur Publications = Borlase, William (1769) The Antiquities of Cornwall. London: E & W Books, 1973; reprint of the 2d ed., printed in 1769 by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, for S. Baker & G. Leigh, T. Payne, B. White, London. (First ed. published in 1754 under title: Observations on the Antiquities of Cornwall.) ISBN 0-85409-852-6 «= Borlase, William (1756) Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the Islands of Scilly, and their Importance to the Trade of Great Britain (https://catalog hathitrust.org/Record/00015590 4), Oxford: W. Jackson = Borlase, William (1758) Natural History of Cornwall... (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00149 5841) Oxford: printed for the author, by W. Jackson: sold by W. Sandby, at the Ship in Fleet-Street London; and the booksellers of Oxford Notes 1. Prior to 1752, the calendar generally in use in Britain was the Julian (“Old Style") calendar, in which the New Year began on 25 March. In contemporary records, Borlase would therefore have been regarded as having been born towards the end of the year 1695, but in modem historical writing the date is usually adjusted to the New Style year of 1696, or for clarity given in dual form as 1695/6, 2. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Borlase, William". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 255. bitpsen.wikipedia.orgwikiWiliam_Borlase 20sii24, 2:52AM \Witam Borase - Wikipedia 3. Fordham, Ray (2003). Canon Boscawen of Ludgvan and his Contributions to Horticulture. In Ludgvan; A Century of Horticulture 1903-2003. Ludgvan: Ludgvan Horticultural Society, pp. 17— 21. 4. Tregellas 1886. 5, John Wesley's Journal, 2 July 1745; J. H. Barr (1916) Early Methodists under Persecution, p. 154. 6. Borlase, William (1758). The Natural History of Cornwall (http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdi/egi-bin/libr -—-Omunahi10--00-( Oprompt-10-—-4-— )-1|--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1- L3.1.10&d=munahi010-afm). Retrieved 29 November 2016. 7. "Morrab Library Archive Index" (http://morrablibrary.org.ukiwp-content/uploads/2013/09/Morab-Libr ary-Archive-Index.pdf) (PDF). Morrab Library. Retrieved 29 November 2016. Bibliography = Tregellas, Walter Hawken (1886). "Borlase, William” (https:/ien wikisourc [mu e.orgiwiki/Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Borlase, Willia mmm Coral! portal m). In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co. = Borlase, William (1803). "Memoirs [1772)" (htip://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.79254234;view =1up;seq=544), The Gentleman's Magazine. ‘st ser. 73: 1114-17. + Haycock, David Boyd (2006) [2004]. "Borlase, William 1696-1772)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2910 (https:/idoi.org/10.109 3%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F2910), (Subscription or UK public library membership (httos://www.oxforddnb.c om/help/subscribe#public) required.) = Pool, P.A. S. (1970). "William Boriase, 1696-1772". In Borlase, William (ed.). The Antiquities of Cornwall, London: E & W Books. pp. 17-22. + Pool, P.A. S. (1978). "William Borlase”, In Simmons, Jack (ed.). English County Historians: first series. Wakefield: EP Publishing, pp. 83-110. ISBN 0-7158-1309-9. = Pool, P.A. S. (1986). William Borlase. Truro: Royal Institution of Cornwall. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wlindex.php?ttle=William_Borlaseoldid=1165031318" bitpsen.wikipedia.orgwikiWiliam_Borlase a8