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and in the second class of the classical tripos. In 1852 he became second master of Cheltenham grammar school and in 1868 head master. He published a great number of valuable mathematical books and papers, and was a contributor to the Jrnl. R.I.C. He was elected F.R.S. in 1880. He d.1891; buried at Gwennap. (See Jrnl. R.I.C..,vol.xi,p.208).

JOHN OF CORNWALL (alias John of St. Germans) was living 1170. It is disputed whether he was Breton or Cornish. The "Dictionary of National Biography" believes he was Cornish. He studied in Paris under Peter Lombard and was afterwards a lecturer there. His only undoubted work was "Eulogium ad Alexandrum Papam III," in which he controverts Lombard's views of the Incarnation. The MS is preserved at Oxford. He is also believed to have been the translator into Latin of the "Prophecy of Merlin" referred to (p 197) above. (See Wright's "Biog. Brit. Lit. Anglo-Norman period", p 215).

JOHN KEIGWIN was b.at Mousehole in 1641. His translation of the Cornish miracle plays "Paeon Agan Arluth" and of the "Gwreans an Bys" (The Creation of the World) of Wm Jordan were printed by Davies Gilbert in 1827. (See p.200). He d. in 1716.

ANNE,daughter of Henry KILLIGREW, Master of the Savoy,was b. in London in 1660; and d. of smallpox in 1685. She was accounted a virtuous woman, a clever painter and good poet, but her paintings have all perished and her poetry is forgotten, as indeed she would have been herself had she not been immortalised in Dryden's Ode "To the pious memory of the accomplished young lady,Miss Anne Killigrew,excellent in the two sister arts of poetry and painting."

RICHARD LEMON LANDER was son of the landlord of "The Fighting Cocks"(now Dolphin Inn),Truro. b.in 1804 he soon showed a love of travelling, and when eleven years of age went to the West Indies. For some years he was a gentleman's servant, and in that capacity visited many parts of Europe. In 1823 he went to Africa; in 1825 he again went there, in company with Capt. Clapperton, and stayed with that officer till his death in the interior in 1827. Lander made his way home by himself. By this time he had shown what was in him, and went on a voyage of discovery in the pay of the government. As the window placed in the Chapel Royal, Savoy, by the Royal Geographical Society,records,he was the discoverer of the source of the Niger, And the first Gold Medal winner of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1824 he was shot by some ambushed natives,and died of the wound. His brother John (a printer by trade) who accompanied him on one voyage to Africa was b.1807 and d.1839. The monument in Truro was erected in 1835. In Jnrl.R.I.C., vol.vi,p 384,a map of his travels is given.

LUCAS CORNUBIENSIS (ie. Luke of Cornwall),clerk,who became a moneyer at Oxford (Chron. Oxenius,p 319). We can learn nothing further of him, and only name him out of respect to previous editions.

RICHARD de LUCY, lord of Truro,and owner of Treglasta manor in Davidstow,was from 1153 to 1166 chief justiciary of England jointly with the earl of Leicester,and from 1166 to 1179 sole chief justiciary. In 1166 and again in 1169 he was excommunicated by Thomas Becket for his share in drawing up the constitutions of Clarendon. In the insurrection of 1173 he commanded the