'The Last Journey of the Fox: Cornwall and the Magnetic Crusade'

Lecture by Dr Edward Gillin 13 October 2021

Annual Paul Smales Lecture preseted by Falmouth University, Falmouth Civic Society, and the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.

The Paul Smales lectures are given in memory of a man who made a great contribution to many Cornish institutions and was a friend of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society for many years.

He was a barrister, whose Bardic name Map Trevethan, celebrated his birthplace. As an active member of the London Cornish Association, he helped to establish the Trelawney lectures, the Cornish Heritage Trust and at his suggestion the Cornish Music and Literary Guilds were created. He was a poet in both English and Cornish and in April 1990 he set up the first Barristers Chambers in Cornwall for 40 years but sadly only five months later he passed away as a result of an illness contracted in India while visiting a hospital charity with which he was involved.