and Hertfordshire. In 1906, Nance moved from Wales and settled at Nancledra near St Ives, Cornwall from where he jointly founded the Society for Nautical Research in 1911. In 1959, he died and was buried at St Senara's Church, Zennor after taking ill in the autumn of 1957. Selected list of works 1912: 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 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. 1932: An Balores, a play in Unified Cornish 1934: English-Cornish Dictionary, with A. S. D. Smith 1938: Cornish-English Dictionary. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies 1956: The Cledry Plays: drolls of Old Cornwall for village acting and home reading. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies B0000CJH1W 1961: Cornish for All: a guide to Unified Cornish. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. B0000CKWG1 [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 References Obituary in The Times, May 28, 1959 External links What we stand for — Old Cornwall 1:1, April 1925 Setting Cornwall on its Feet: Robert Morton Nance 1873-1959 Robert Morton Nance (Mordon) at the website of Gorseth Kernow 1873 births 1959 deaths Writers from Cardiff Celtic studies scholars Cornish-language writers Cornish-speaking people Grand Bards of Gorsedh Kernow Writers from Cornwall Bards of Gorsedh Kernow Cornish nationalists Cornish language revival Burials in Cornwall