Talk:Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society

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Here i have provided information that i could find to date on the RCPS there is a lot more that needs to be addded with regards to its activities within the mining community and if any one has any please add it Cheveney 22:18, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

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The following persons are indexed in ODNB as having some association with RCPS:

• John Basset (1791–1843), writer on Cornish mining
• Henry Samuel Boase (1799–1883), geologist and chemist
• Neville Northey Burnard (1818–1878), sculptor
• Jonathan Couch (1789–1870), physician and naturalist
• Sir Clement Le Neve Foster (1841–1904), geologist and mining engineer
• Charles Fox (scientist) (1797–1878), scientific writer
• Robert Were Fox, (1789–1877), geologist and physicist
• Dorothy Christian Hare (1876–1967), physician
• Sir Thomas Henry Holland, (1868–1947), geologist and civil servant
• Robert Hunt (1807–1887), chemist and photographer
• William Husband (1822–1887), civil and mechanical engineer
• Henry Jenner (1848–1934), librarian and promoter of the Cornish language
• Thomas Brown Jordan (1807–1890), engineer
• Matthew Paul Moyle (1788–1880), surgeon and geologist
• John Arthur Phillips (1822–1887), mining engineer and metallurgist
• (Robert) Howard Spring (1889–1965), novelist and journalist
• John Sterling (1806–1844) writer and poet
• Joseph Thomas Treffry (bap. 1782, d. 1850), mining industrialist
• Walter Hawken Tregellas (1831–1894), write

Vernon White 23:16, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

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What particular sort of wikification do you desire, please? I hear that a full-scale academic history of RCPS is on the stocks. Can you wait for that, please?--Vernon White (talk) 00:43, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

How about a lead section, above the history? Other than that, it's actually pretty good for an article with a tag like that.--Rmky87 00:07, 21 November 2006 (UTC)