Flushing, Cornwall - Notable People

Notable People

See also: Category:People from Flushing, Cornwall
  • Morwenna Banks, actress, was born here
  • James Silk Buckingham, author, politician and social reformer was also born here.
  • Harrison Hayter engineer, was born here.
  • John Marquis, author, editor, sports writer and publisher
  • Admiral Lord Nelson owned a house in St Peter's Road.
  • The naval family of Bartholomew James Sulivan (1810–1890) maintained a house here, as did many Royal and merchant Navy officers in the nineteenth century. Sulivan as a young naval officer in the 1830s was a friend and shipmate of Charles Darwin on the historic HMS Beagle voyage of Charles Darwin (which docked in Falmouth on 2 October 1836, an event briefly recorded in Darwin's journal of the voyage).

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