FOX, JANE GURNEY (dau. of Jonathan Backhouse, of Darlington, and wife of Robert Barclay Fox, who d. 1855). See Backhouse.

FOX, JOHN (3rd son of Francis Fox, of St. Germans). b. Plymouth, 1693. d. 25th Oct., 1763.

Memoir of himself, by Mr. John Fox, of Plymouth, with biographical sketches of some of his contemporaries, and some unpublished letters from Archbishop Secker and Dr. Samuel Chandler. Monthly Repository, xvi, 129, etc. (1821); xvii, 219 (1822).

NOTE. The above contain much information respecting the early Cornish dissenters.

Memoir of Benjamin Smithurst [of London, who resided sometime at Saltash and Launceston]. By J. Fox. ib., xvi, 443-46 (1821).

FOX, JOSEPH (3rd son of George Fox, of Par). b. 1729. d. 1784 (?). cf. Letters of 1st Earl of Malmesbury (1870), i, 428.

The Christian Principle... of Goodwill, exemplified in practice [a Memoir of J. Fox]. The Herald of Peace, vi, pt. ii, 437-44 (1828.) cf. The Irish Friend, iv, 35.

On the National Crime of Privateering [relative to Mr. J. Fox]. Christian Observer, xxxi, 22-9 (1831).

FOX, JOSEPH, M.D. (eldest son of the preceding). b. Falmouth, 1759. d. Plymouth, 25th Feb., 1832. cf. Munk's Roll of Physicians, ii, 337; Gent. Mag., cii, 284 (1832).

FOX, JOSEPH JOHN, M.R.C.S., F.S.S., (eldest son of Joseph Fox, Surgeon). b. Falmouth, 6th Aug., 1821.

The Society of Friends; an enquiry into the cause of its weakness as a Church. By J. J. Fox, Fellow of the Statistical Society... Lond., A. W. Bennett, 5, Bishopgate without, 1859, 8o. 2 PP. 106.

On the Mortality of the Metropolis. Med. Times and Gaz., xiii, 112-14; 167-69; 467-68, (1856); xiv, 284; xv, 190-91, 471-72, (1857); xvi, 243-45, 263-64; xvii, 548-49, (1858).

On the vital Statistics of the Society of Friends. Statist. Soc. Journ., xxii, 208-31, 481-83, (1859). On the Province of the Statistician. ib. xxiii, 330, (1860).

The Relative Prosperity of different parts of Cornwall, before the opening of the Cornwall Railway (so far), as shewn by the excess of births over deaths, from 1855 to 1858. Rep. R.C.P.Soc., 1860, pp. 126-28.

FOX, ROBERT BARCLAY (only son of Robert Were Fox, F.R.S.). b. Falmouth, 6th Sept., 1817. d. Gizeh, Cairo, 10th March, 1855. cf. Illust. Lond. News, xxvi, 442, (1855).

Lights and Sounds [a poem], dated Hyères, France, 15th March, 1854, and signed R.B.F. Herald of Peace, iii, 48, (1854-55).

Karnak [a poem], dated Thebes, 1855, and signed R.B.F. ib., iii, 192.

FOX, ROBERT WERE, F.R.S. (eldest son of R. W. Fox), b. Falmouth, 26th April, 1789. Observations on Mineral Veins. By R. W. Fox. Communicated to the R.C.P.Soc., and taken from their Report for 1836. 3 Coloured Plates. Falmouth, printed by J. Trathan, Market Strand, 1837, 8°., pp. 65.

A.D. 1812, Dec. 10th, No. 3621. Specifica tion of Robert Were Fox, the younger, of Falmouth... Merchant, and Joel Lean, then the younger of the parish of Budock...gentleman, for Certain Improvements on Steam Engines and the apparatus needful or expedient to be

Premiums offered by R. W. Fox. Rep. R.C.P.Soc., 1833, p. 8; 1834, p. 11.

Dipping Needle Deflector. ib., 1834, pp. 5056; 1835, p. 50.

On a Galvanometer, employed to detect the quality of Copper Sheathing, &c., for Ships. ib., 1834, p. 37.

Chart and Table of Dip and Intensity of Terrestial Magnetism. ib., 1835, pp. 57–64.

On a proposed Wedge, to be used in blasting rocks. ib., 1835, pp. 114-15; 1838, p. 141. The Magnetic Balance. ib., 1836, p. 77. On Mineral Veins. ib., 1836, pp. 81-141; 1841, p. 163; 1842, pt. ii, p. 103.

The Lamination of Clay by Electricity. ib., 1837, pp. 20, 68.

On a Plan for Measuring the Electro-Magnetic Intensity of Electrical Currents. ib., 1842, pt. i, pp. 25-26.

Notice of some Experiments on Subterranean Electricity, made in Pennance Mine. ib., 1842, pt. ii, pp. 103-109.

A Paper relative to Springs of Water. ib., 1843, p. 59, App.

On certain Pseudomorphous Crystals of Quartz. ib., 1845, pp. 1-8.

Some Remarks on the High Temperature in the United Mines. ib., 1846, pp. 1–3.

On an Instrument for Measuring the Specific Gravity and Weights of Bodies. ib., 1847, pp. 19-20.

Results of Experiments on Magnetic Dip and Intensity in some parts of Europe in 1859. ib., 1859, p. 118.

On the Temperature of Mines. Plate. Trans. R.G.S.C. ii, 14-18, (1819).

On the Temperature of Mines. Plate. ib., ii, 19-28, (1820).

Some further Observation on the Temperature of Mines. ib., iii, 313-328, (1827). Observations on Metalliferous Veins and their Electro-Magnetic Properties. ib., iv, 21-28, (1830).

On a Vegeto-Metallic Specimen found near Falmouth. ib., vi, 76, (1846).

FOX, ROBERT WERE. (Con.).

Electro-Magnetic Properties of the Metalliferous Veins in the Mines of Cornwall. Philos. Trans., cxx, 399-414, (1830), cxxv, 39-40, (1835).

On the Variable Intensity of Terrestrial Magnetism and the influence of the Aurora Borealis upon it. ib., cxxi, 199-208, (1831).

Report of Experiments on the Electricity of Metallic Veins and the Temperature of Mines. Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1837, pp. 133-37.

Magnetic Observations. ib., 1838, pp. 67, 89, 101, 147.

Report on Subterranean Temperature in the Mines of Cornwall. ib., 1840, pp. 309-19; 1857, pp. 96-101.

Report on the Magnetic Survey of Great Britain and Ireland. ib., 1857, p. 130; 1858, p. 185.

Experiments on the Electricity of the Copper Vein in Huel Jewel Mine. Brit. Assoc. Sect. 1834, pp. 572-74.

On a new Dipping Needle. ib., 1835, p. 25. On the absence of Magnetism in cast iron when in fusion. ib., 1835, p. 33.

On Voltaic Agencies in Metalliferous Veins. ib., 1836, pp. 81-82.

On the production of a Horizontal vein of Carbonate of Zinc. ib., 1839, p. 90.

On Mineral Veins. Philos. Mag., vi, 17-21, (1829).

On the Discharge of a Jet of Water under water. ib., viii, 342.

On the Increased Heat in Mines. ib., ix, 95-99, (1831).

On Terrestrial Magnetism. ib., ix, 361. On some Phoenomena of Heat. ib., xi, 34547, (1832).

On certain Irregularities in the Vibrations of the Magnetic Needle produced by partial warmth, and some Remarks on the Electromagnetism of the Earth. Lond., and Edinb. Philos. Mag., i, 310-14, 1832. [Proc. Roy. Soc., iii, 123–5, 1832.]

Some facts which appear to be at variance with the Igneous Hypothesis of Geologists. ib., i, 338-40.

Notice of a Marine Deposit in the cliffs near Falmouth. ib., i, 471–2.

Sketch of the Granite District near Penryn. ib., ii, 326-27, (1833).

On Magnetic Attraction and Repulsion, and on Electrical Action. ib., iv, 1–11, (1834).

On an Instrument for ascertaining various properties of Terrestrial Magnetism. ib., iv, 8188.

FOX, ROBERT WERE. (Con.).

Electrical relations of Metals and Metalliferous Minerals. ib., vi, 300, 1835. [Philos. Trans., cxxv, 39-40, 1835].

On the Absence of Magnetism in cast iron in fusion. ib., vii, 388.

On the laws of Magnetic Attraction. ib., vii, 439-40.

Some further remarks on the Magnetic Forces. ib., viii, 108-109, (1836.)

On the change in the Chemical character of Minerals induced by Galvanism. ib., ix, 228. On the Formation of Mineral Veins. ib., ix, 387.

Results of Experiments on the Production of Artificial Crystals, by voltaic action. ib., x, 171-72, (1837).

On the process by which Mineral Veins have been filled. ib., xi, 203-204.

On the Temperature of some Mines in Cornwall and Devonshire. ib., xi, 520.

Experiments on Subterranean Electricity made in Pennance Mine. ib., xxiii, 491-96, (1843). On Pseudomorphous Crystals of Quartz. ib., xxviii, 5-10, (1846.)

On the Result of Mr. Fox's Experiments on the Production of Artificial Crystals by Voltaic Action. Edinb. New Philos. Journ., xxii, 402-3, (1837).

On the Lamination of Clay by Electricity. ib., xxv, 196-98, (1838).

On Electric Currents in Metalliferous Veins. ib., xxviii, 267-71, (1840).

On Springs of Water. ib., xxxviii, 66-71, (1845).

On Pseudo morphous Crystals of Quartz. ib., xl, 115-21, 1846. [Silliman Journ. i, 430-32, 1846].

The High Temperature in the United Mines. ib., xlii, 23-25, (1847).

Experiments illustrative of the Influence of Voltaic Electricity on copper pyrites. Sturgeon, Ann. Electr., i, 132–34, (1836-7).

The Magnetic Balance. ib., i, 494-95.

The Lamination of Clay by Electricity. ib., ii, 54-56, (1838).

On the Formation of Mineral Veins. ib., ii, 166-94.

Experiments on Subterranean Electricity. Sturgeon, Ann. Philos., i, 71-76, (1843).

Alloys of Platinum. Thomson, Ann. Philos., xiii, 467-68, 1819; [Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys., i, 363-64, 1819].

On the Formation of Mineral Veins. Proc. Geol. Soc., Lond., ii, 406, 539-40, (1838).

The Formation of Metallic Veins by voltaic agency. ib., iii, 9-10, (1842).

Notice of some Experiments on the Electric Currents in Pennance mine, near Falmouth. Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond., iii, 755-57, 1842. [Chemist, iv, 337-39, 1843.]

On the Formation of Mineral Veins. Trans. Geol. Soc. Lond., v, 497-98, (1838).

On Sand-worn Granite near the Land's-end. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond., ii, 549–50, (1855).

An account of the observations and experiments on the Temperature of Mines, which have recently been made in Cornwall and the north of England. By R. W. Fox and M. P. Moyle. Tilloch, Philos. Mag., lxi, 347-53, 436-47, (1823). Gilbert, Annal., lxxvi, 390–452, (1824).

FOX, SARAH HUSTLER (dau. of William Hustler and wife of Charles Fox). b. Bradford, Yorkshire, 1800.

A Metrical Version of the Book of Job, designed chiefly for the use of schools. Anon. Part i. Lond., C. Gilpin, 1852, 16o., pp. iv and 67. Part ii. Lond., W. Cash, 1854, 16o.

Poems, Original and Translated. By S. H. F[ox]. With illustrations by E. F. T[uckett]. Lond., Longman, 1863, sq. fcp., 8°., pp. xi and 189, 5/6.

Catch Who Can, or Hide and Seek. Original Double Acrostics. By Sphinx. [pseud., i.e., S. H. Fox]. Lond., Longman, 1869, 8°., pp. vi and 136.

NOTE. A Key to the Acrostics is published separately, price 6d.

The Matterhorn Sacrifice. [A Poem,] signed S.H.F. Macmillan's Mag., xii, 528-29, (1865).

FOX, SARAH PRIDEAUX (dau. of Robert Phillips Fox). b. Perran Wharf, 3rd April, 1813. Kingsbridge Estuary, with Rambles in the neighbourhood. Compiled by S. P. Fox. Kingsbridge, G. P. Friend, Gazette Office, 29 Fore Street, Lond., Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1864, 8°., pp. 172, 12/6.

NOTE. The photographic illustrations are by the writer's brother, Geo. Fox.

FOXELL, REV. JOHN. b. Frome, Oct., 1777. d. Penzance, 5th June, 1852.

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Our Duty under National Bereavements. Sermon occasioned by the lamented death of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Saxe Coburg; the outlines of which were delivered at the Independent Meeting, Penzance, on Wednesday evening, November 19th, 1817. By John Foxell. Penzance, printed and sold by T. Vigurs, Lond., Boynes, 1817, 4°., pp. 27, 1. Dr. Williams'.

A Letter to Mr. Foxell on the Apostolical Succession, in answer to a letter of his which appeared in the Penzance Gazette, 22nd Dec., 1841. By An Anglo Catholic Layman. Penzance, R. D. Rodda, 1842, 8°., pp. 24.

FOXELL, MARY (dau. of Walter and Mary Borlase, and wife of preceding). d. Penzance, 26th Sept., 1849, aged 84. cf. J. Davy's Life and Works of Sir H. Davy, (1839), i, 40-41.

FRANCIS, GEORGE GRANT, LIEUT.-COLL. 1st

Glamorgan Artillery, F.S.A. (son of John Francis.) b. Swansea, 1814.

The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District from the time of Elizabeth to the present Not published. day. By Major G. Francis. Swansea, printed at the Cambrian Office, Wine Street, 1867, 8°., pp. viii and 126.

NOTE. This work contains numerous references to Cornish Copper Mines. Prefixed is a list of 50 persons to whom copies were presented.

List of Cornish Tokens. July, 1864.

West Briton, 22nd

FRANCIS, HENRY. b. St. Mewan. Mineral Phenomena. Rep. R.C.P.Soc., 1868, pp. 19-22.

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On Mineral Phenomena. By H. Francis. Member of the Breage Class. Rep. Miners' Assoc. of C. and D., 1868, pp. 46-49.

FRANCIS, CAPT. WILLIAM, of the Consolidated Mines (son of Will. and Mary Francis). b. Chacewater. bapt. Gwennap, 26th Jan., 1805. d. Whitehall, Kenwyn. bur. Gwennap, 22nd March, 1849.

Description of Man-engine at the United Mines. Rep. R.C.P.Soc., 1845, p. 22.

Some Remarks on the High Temperature in the United Mines. ib., 1846, pp. 4-8; Edinb. New. Philos. Journ., xliii, 102-106, (1847).

FRASER, ROBERT. (Con.).

consideration of the Board of Agriculture. By R. Fraser. Lond., Macrae, 1794, 4°., pp. 70. A review of the Domestic Fisheries of Great Britain and Ireland. By R. Fraser. Edinburgh, 1818, 4°., preface pp. viii, contents pp. vi, review pp. 161, app. pp. 126, index pp. v.

NOTE.-App. pp. 115-19 contains the evidence of Mr. Philip Hall, and pp. 123-25 the evidence of Mr. Will. Harvey, respecting the use of salt in the Cornish fisheries.

On Potatoes in Cornwall. A. Young's Annals of Agriculture, xxiii, 61–8, (1795).

FRASER, REV. ROBERT W.

Seaside Divinity by the Rev. R. W. Fraser, M.A. Illustrations. Lond., J. Hogg and Sons, 1861, 12°., pp. xii and 378.

The Seaside Naturalist. By the Rev. R. W. Fraser. Lond., Virtue and Co., 1868, 12°., pp. xiv and 292.

FRASER, REV. WILLIAM, D.C.L. V. of Alton, Staffordshire.

St. Ives. By W. Fraser. Torr-Mohun. N. and Q. 1 S. vii, 182, (1853).

FREE, JONATHAN. pseud. i.e.

Old England, or The National Gazette. Published Saturday, July 4, and Saturday, July 11. By Jonathan Free of the county of Cornwall, Esquire. Lond., printed for the year 1752.

FREEHOLDER, A. pseud. i.e., H. Boase.

FREEL, C., Professor of Languages. Resident at Penzance.

Paris. A Hand book, or French at sight. Anon. Lond., R. Washbourne, 13, Paternoster Row, 1867, 16o., pp. 32, 9d.

The Three Fingered Stone. Translated from the German, by C. Freel. Cornish Teleg., 5th Jan., 1868.

NOTE. The first of a series of translated tales. FREEMAN, THOMAS. b. Gloucestershire, 1590.

Rvbbe and a Great Cast. Epigrams by T. Freeman, Gent. Imprinted at London, & are to bee sold at the Tigers-Head, 1614, sm. 4o., No pagination. Br. Museum.

NOTE. 2nd Book. Epigram 47. "Encomion Cornubis." Epigram 48, "In laudem Pensanciæ."

FREEMAN, THOMAS. (Con.).

Encomion Cornubiæ. Reprinted in G. Ellis' Specimens of Early English Poetry, (1811), iii, 113.

FRENCH, J.

An Hymn for Christmas. By J. French, St. Austell. Methodist Mag., xxxviii, 576, (1805).

FRENCH TRAVELLER, A. pseud. i.e., L. Simond.

FROHOCK, REV. HENRY. R. of Withiel. d. 1681. cf. Walker's Sufferings, pt. ii, p. 241. FROHOCK, REV. HENRY. (? son of the preceding). b. Cornwall, 1648. d. 7th April, 1692. cf. Faulkner's Hist. of Kensing/on, p. 211.

FROUDE, WILLIAM.

Report on the Exhibition of Implements at Truro, 1861. By W. Froude, Elmsleigh, Paignton. Journ. Bath and West Engl. Soc., x, pt. i, 1-25, (1862.)

FRY, ELIZABETH. (3rd dau. of John Gurney, and wife of Joseph Fry). b. Norwich, 21st May, 1780. d. Ramsgate, 12th Oct., 1845.

Memoir of the Life of E. Fry, with extracts from her journals and letters. Ed. by two of her daughters. Lond., C. Gilpin, 1847, 2 vols.,

8o.

NOTE.-Account of Mrs. Fry's visits to Cornwall (in 1825) i, 491-94, (in 1835) ii, 211-14.

FUGE, REV. JAMES, M.A.

The Mission of Christ, and of his disciples. A sermon preached in the Church of St. Michael, Helston, at the Visitation of the Venerable the Archdeacon of Cornwall, in the month of June, 1850, by the Rev. J. Fuge, Minister of the New District of Godolphin. Helston, E. Carlyon, 1850, 12°., pp. 11.

FULLER, JOHN JAMES GIBSON. (son of Lieut. Jas. Fuller.) b. Blakeney, in Norfolk, 17th May, 1804.

Brasses formerly in Crowan Church. By Curiosus, [pseud. i.e. J. J. G. Fuller]. West Brit., 26th March, 1868.

Archæology. ib., 16th April.

The Rev. E. B. Hutchison's Collection of Rubbings from Brasses. ib., 16th July.

The opening of the Tich Barrow, near Camelford. ib., 3rd Sept.

NOTE. Mr. Fuller has at various times written under the pseudonyms of 66 Curiosus," Our Own Pioneer," The Practical Man," "The Old Hand," 'Nitric Acid," &c.