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The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society (commonly known as The Poly) is an educational, cultural and scientific charity, [1] as well as a local arts and cinema venue, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The Society exists to promote innovation in the arts and sciences.
The idea for the foundation of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society was created by Anna Maria, Barclay and Caroline Fox, in 1832, when they were 17, 16 and 13, respectively. Their parents, uncles and aunts and their friends took up the idea with enthusiasm.
She focused her efforts along the southern shores of Cornwall, mainly around the River Fal basin, with particular attention to marine algae (seaweeds) and cryptogams. Warren was a founding member of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society (RCPS), and she worked closely with the Royal Horticultural Society of Cornwall (RCHS). [2]
Based on a plan to set up The Falmouth Polytechnic Society originated by Anna Maria Fox at the age of seventeen, Charles was one of the projectors and founders of what became the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society at Falmouth in 1835, following being granted a Royal warrant by King William the IV and, in conjunction with Sir Charles Lemon, led ...
Anna Maria Fox (1816 in Falmouth–1897) promoted Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, from Fox family of Falmouth [55] Robert Barclay Fox (1817–1855), businessman, gardener and diarist, from the influential Quaker Fox family of Falmouth [56] Robert Kemp Philp (1819 in Falmouth–1882) was an English journalist, author and Chartist
They became friends and spent the next decade researching Cornish and collecting tidbits of traditional Cornish. These were published in a series of papers which were read both to the Royal Institution of Cornwall and the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. [3] Jenner and Nance formed the first Old Cornwall Society in St Ives in 1920. Its motto ...
He had wide general interests in science and supported the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the British Association.At the British Association's Annual Meeting held in Nottingham in September 1893, he read a paper to the Geology Section "The radiolarian cherts of Cornwall".
RGSC, RCPS, RIC, The Miners Association, IMM, Geological Society Joseph Henry Collins FGS , (16 March 1841 – 12 April 1916) was a British mining engineer , mineralogist and geologist . [ 1 ] He died at his home, Crinnis House, near St Austell, on 12 April 1916 and is buried in Campdowns cemetery, Charlestown .