to him in 2011. Major-General Sir Henry James (1803–1877), a Royal Engineers officer and DG of the Ordnance Survey 1854–1875 Richard Lemon Lander (1804–1834), explorer in West Africa. A local secondary school is named in his honour and a monument to his memory stands at the top of Lemon Street. John Lander (1806–1839), printer and explorer with his brother Richard Lemon Lander Charles Chorley (c. 1810–1874), journalist and man of letters William Bennett Bond (1815–1906), Canadian priest and second primate of the Anglican Church of Canada Alexander Mackennal (1835–1904), nonconformist minister Silvanus Trevail (1851–1903) local architect and mayor of Truro Joseph Hunkin (1887–1950), Bishop of Truro from 1935 to 1950 James Henry Fynn (Finn, 1893–1917), recipient of the Victoria Cross Barbara Joyce West (1911–2007), second-to-last survivor of the Alison Adburgham (1912–1997), social historian and fashion journalist, died in the town. Hugh Clegg (1920–1995), academic, founded the National Board for Prices and Incomes (1965–1971) David Penhaligon (1944–1986), politician, Liberal MP for Truro 1974–1986 Paul Myners, Baron Myners, (1948-2022), businessman and politician Mark Laity (born c. 1962), NATO spokesman and former BBC correspondent NneNne Iwuji-Eme (born c. 1978), British diplomat, UK High Commissioner to Mozambique Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, (1979–2009), a British Army bomb-disposal expert Arts Giles Farnaby (c. 1563–1640), composer and virginalist Samuel Foote (1720–1777), actor and playwright Henry Bone (1755–1834), porcelain, jewellery and enamel painter Joseph Antonio Emidy (1775–1835), former slave from Guinea turned violinist Charles William Hempel (1777–1855), organist of St Mary's Church, Truro, and poet Nicholas Michell (1807–1880) a Cornish writer, best known for his poetry Charles Frederick Hempel (1811–1867), organist and composer Walter Hawken Tregellas (1831–1894) professional draughtsman and historical and biographical writer Francis Charles Hingeston-Randolph (1833–1910), cleric, antiquary and author Henry Dawson Lowry (1869–1906), journalist, short story writer, novelist and poet Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) novelist, who attended a preparatory school in Truro Maria Kuncewiczowa (1895–1989), Polish writer living in Truro after WWII. Her novel Tristan 1946 was set here. Margaret Steuart Pollard (1904–1996), poet and translator lived in Truro from 1930s William Golding (1911–1993), novelist, playwright and poet, gained the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. Born in St Columb Minor, he returned to live near Truro in 1985. Alison Adburgham (1912–1997), author, social historian and fashion editor of The Guardian Irene Newton (1915–1992), artist Catherine Grubb, artist (born 1945), lives in Truro. Roger Taylor (born 1949), drummer from the rock band Queen Robert Goddard (born