The second Penzance Grammar School, built c 1790.
Penhale House, Queen Street
Penzance Grammar School
The grounds included cottages on the opposite side of the present Queen Street, the site had been divided when Queen Street was built,
[first named New Road, built to relieve Voundervour Lane]
the cottages were demolished and the second national School was built in 1871.
This Penzance Grammar School was built c 1790.
George Coryton was master until 1802, he was relieved as the school was found to be in a ruinous state.
Next was the Reverend Athanasius Laffer until 1811.
Then John McArthur took over, on the basis of forged qualifications
and having hidden the fact that he had been a part of a mail coach raid, so left when discovered.
Charles Valentine LeGrice then took over until
Rev George Thomson Nankivell (b c1770 Bosvigo, of St Kitt's, West Indies) was master,
leaving when he became Vicar of Fowey in 1815.
Reverend George Morris was born in Oxford 17th January 1792; he became Master at Penzance Grammar Scool from 1816 to 1842;
he lived at Redinnick House (built for John Eddison) and then moved to Regent Terrace; Curate of Morvah, then Zennor, then Gulval;
Vicar of St Allen from 30th July 1842 until he died 19 August 1876.
Thomas Glynn Grylls (b1821) was master 1850-1859;
he married 1853 to Henrietta daughter of John Saxton Campbell (owner of Treneere Manor).
The School remained closed until then sold to
James Pentreath, corn merchant and grocer,
he was son of Richard Pentreath of Paul, established schools and master of schools at Paul and Trungle.
In 1861 James' widow Peggy Pentreath (daughter of Henry Edmonds, painter), was at Penhale House, renting it out to
Robert H Carew, Army Adjutant Of Volunteers of Ealing, and his family.
Peggy Pentreath was found dead in her bed, and the house was then taken over by
Robert Lovell, a Guano and Potato Merchant.
In the 1960s ..
Nr 27 Queen street was later home of Mr Peter Tressider of Penzance Borough Council; Nr 26 was home of my wife to be.
Raymond Forward
