Robert Morton Nance - Chronology of His Life

Chronology of His Life

• 1898: He wrote "The Merry Ballad of the Cornish Pasty".
• 1906: He moved from Wales and settled at Nancledra near St Ives.
• 1911: He jointly founded the Society for Nautical Research.
• 1920: He, together with Henry Jenner, 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 Gorseth 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' Middle Cornish spelling system.
• 1951 - 1955: He was President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall for 1951 - 1955.