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Address of the President - 26th July, 1910

(On Churches of the West Country)

by

John D. Enys, Esq., J.P, F.G.S.

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. XLII, (1910), pp.54-61.

Prepared by Michael Steer

 

The Devonshire Association’s Presidential Address was read at its July 1910 Cullompton meeting. John Davies Enys (11 October 1837 – 7 November 1912) was a Cornishman who had spent some time in New Zealand as a “run holder” or sheep farmer. He was educated at Harrow School and became a distinguished naturalist. John D. Enys was born in Penryn to John Samuel Enys (1796 – 1872) and Catherine (née Gilbert) - see Wikipedia. In the 1850s, Mr Enys attended lectures at the Geological Society of London, took walking tours in Britain and carefully recorded discoveries of ferns, wild-flowers and shells, establishing a pattern of life as an inveterate collector and keen amateur naturalist. He settled in South Island, New Zealand, at Castle Hill, where he raised sheep and studied the local fauna, flora and geology. His brother, Charles joined him. He was scion of a family that had lived at Enys, on the northern outskirts of Penryn, since the reign of Edward I. The 1709 edition of Camden's Magna Britannia mentioned that Enys was noted for its fine gardens. John D.Enys greatly enriched these with the seeds and plants he regularly sent home from New Zealand and Patagonia. The formal gardens still contain plants shrubs and trees from the J D Enys Collection. 
His Presidential Address was on Churches of the West country, and their development from ancient chapels to the present form, common in Cornwall and parts of adjoining Devonshire. The Address, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

 

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Bath & Wells, Bishop of57
Burnard, Mr Robert54
Enys, John60
Exeter, Bishop of57
Gasquet, Francis Aidan56
Grandisson, Bishop57
Haslam, Rev William55
Hingeston-Randolph, Prebendary57, 59
Huma, Prior William de57
Luny, Thomas59-60
Michell, Mr William54
Rodd, Mr E.H.59
Rodd, Mr F.R.59
Saint Austell60
Saint Bruard55
Saint German55
Saint Nicholas57
Saint Piran55
Saint Winnow57
Sawle, Sir Charles G60
Sedding, Mr Edmund H.55
Sulivan, Admiral60
Wye, Prior John de57