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- Chronology of his life
- Selected list of works
- See also
- References
- External links
Robert Morton Nance (1873–1959) was a leading authority on the Cornish language, nautical archaeologist, and joint founder of the Old Cornwall Society. Nance was born in Cardiff to Cornish parents. He wrote many books and pamphlets on the Cornish language, including a Cornish dictionary, which is a standard work, and edited magazines and pamphlets about Cornwall, including Old Cornwall, the journal of the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Nance was also a nautical archaeologist of distinction and was an originator of the Society for Nautical Research. His insight and learning were displayed in his book Sailing-ship Models which appeared in 1924. He studied art in Britain and France and was both a painter and a skilled craftsman. Chronology of his life{{prose|date=August 2017}}- 1873: He was born in Cardiff
- 1898: He wrote "The Merry Ballad of the Cornish Pasty".[1]
- 1906: He moved from Wales and settled at Nancledra near St Ives, Cornwall.
- 1911: He jointly founded the Society for Nautical Research.
- 1920: Together with Henry Jenner, he founded the first Old Cornwall Society at St Ives.
- 1924: The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies was established.
- 1925: The Federation established the periodical Old Cornwall.
- 1928: He jointly founded the Gorsedh Kernow, which was inaugurated at Boscawen-Un, where he took the bardic name Mordon ('Sea Wave').
- 1929: He published Cornish for All using the Unified Cornish spelling system.
- 1951 - 1955: He was President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall for 1951 - 1955.[2]
- 1959: He died and was buried at St Senara's churchyard, Zennor[3]
Selected list of works- 1912: {{cite book|last1=Speight|first1=E E|last2=Nance|first2=R Morton|title=Britain's Sea Story|date=1912-01-01|publisher=Henry Frowde }} {{ASIN|B000LQ60UM| country=uk}}
- 1923: A Glossary of Celtic Words in Cornish Dialect. Falmouth: Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
- 1924: Sailing-ship Models: a selection from European and American collections with introductory text. London: Halton and Truscott Smith (photographs)
- ---do.---2nd rev. ed. London; New York: Halton, 1949
- Classic Sailing-ship Models in Photographs. Reprinted Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 2000 {{ISBN|0-486-41249-0}}
- 1925- : Old Cornwall, as editor and contributor.
- Articles in Old Cornwall, including "The Cornish Language in the Seventeenth Century", in: Old Cornwall; vol. VI, no. 1.
- 1955: Cornish-English Dictionary. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies {{ISBN|0-902660-05-5}}
- 1956: The Cledry Plays: drolls of Old Cornwall for village acting and home reading. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies B0000CJH1W {{Clarify|date=December 2009}}
- 1961: Cornish for All: a guide to Unified Cornish. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. B0000CKWG1 {{clarify|date=October 2010}}
- [n.d.]: A Guide to Cornish Place-names; with a list of the words contained in them. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. (Three editions, before 1971.)
See also- Richard Gendall
- Ken George
- Henry Jenner
- Dolly Pentreath
- Nicholas Williams
References1. ^Hall, Stephen (2001) The Cornish Pasty. Nettlecombe: Agre Books {{ISBN|0-9538000-4-0}}
2. ^Brian Murdoch, "Nance, Robert Morton (1873-1959)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 Nov 2007
3. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85393255 Robert Morton Nance (1873-1959)]; Find a Grave
- Obituary in The Times, May 28, 1959
External links- [https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20090724220537/http://camborne-old-cornwall-society.cornovia.org.uk/OC_extracts/1_1_nance.html What we stand for — Old Cornwall 1:1, April 1925]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080103182150/http://www.francisboutle.co.uk/booklist/nance/index.htm Setting Cornwall on its Feet: Robert Morton Nance 1873-1959]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110517001834/http://www.gorsethkernow.org.uk/english/gallery/grandbards/emordon.htm Robert Morton Nance (Mordon) at the website of Gorseth Kernow]
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