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The Governor of Pendennis Castle was a military officer who commanded the fortifications at Pendennis Castle, part of the defenses of the River Fal and Carrick Roads, on the south coast of Cornwall near Falmouth. Originally fortified under Henry VIII, defenses in the area were intermittently maintained through World War II. The office of governor was abolished in 1837, when Gen. Anderson received the colonelcy of the 78th Regiment of Foot. ==Governors of Pendennis Castle== The early Governorship was a quasi-hereditary office, whose holders were as follows: *John III Killigrew (d.1567) of Arwenack, Falmouth, first Governor, appointed by King Henry VIII.〔Dunkin, Edwin Hadlow Wise, The Monumental Brasses of Cornwall with Descriptive, Geneaological and Heraldic Notes, 1882, pp.36-7〕 His monumental brass survives in St Budock's Church, Budock Water, near Falmouth, inscribed as follows: ::''"Heere lyeth John Killigrew, Esquier, of Arwenack and lord of ye manor of Killigrew in Cornewall, and Elizabeth Trewinnard his wife. He was the first Captaine of Pendennis Castle, made by King Henry the eight and so continued untill the nynth of Queene Elizabeth at which time God tooke him to his mercye, being the yeare of Our Lord 1567. Sr John Killigrew, Knight, his son(n)e succeeded him in ye same place by the gift of Queene Elizabeth"''.〔Dunkin, Edwin Hadlow Wise, The Monumental Brasses of Cornwall with Descriptive, Geneaological and Heraldic Notes, 1882, pp.36-7, Plate 31〕 *1567–1583/4: Sir John IV Killigrew (d.1583/4) of Arwenack, son, 2nd Governor,〔Pedigree of Killigrew, Vivian, J.L., ed. (1887). The Visitations of Cornwall: comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J.L. Vivian. Exeter, p.268()〕 appointed by Queen Elizabeth I, as stated on his father's brass in St Budock's Church. *1584–1598: John V Killigrew (c.1557-1605), of Arwennack, son, 3rd Governor.〔History of Parliament biography()〕 *1598–1603: Sir Nicholas Parker (d. 1603)〔Nicholas Hals Pender, A Falmouth Guide: Containing a Concise Account of the History, Trade, Port and Public Establishments of Falmouth, etc., Falmouth, 1825, p.86()〕 An inscribed slate ledger stone in his memory exists against the south wall of the chancel of St Budock's Church.〔Lysons, Magna Britannia, Vol.3, p.48()〕 *Sir John Parker *Sir Nicholas Hals *1628-April 1635: Sir Robert Killigrew (d.1633/5) of Hanworth, Middlesex, jointly with his eldest son Sir William Killigrew (1606–1695)〔History of Parliament biography()〕 of Kempton Park, Middlesex, a grandson and great-grandson respectively of John Killigrew (d.1567) of Arwennack, the first Governor.〔Pedigree of Killigrew, Vivian, J.L., ed. (1887). The Visitations of Cornwall: comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J.L. Vivian. Exeter, pp.268,270()〕 *April 1635-1643: Sir Nicholas Slanning (1606-1643),〔See History of Parliament biography of Sir William Killigrew (1606–1695)()〕 a Royalist commander during the Civil War. His widow Gertrude Bagg remarried to Richard Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Trerice (c.1616-1687), the 2nd son of the next Governor. *c.1643–1646: Sir John VII Arundell (1576–1654), of Trerice, nicknamed "Jack-for-the-King". During the Civil War in 1646 he held the castle for King Charles I, and withstood a five month long siege by Parliamentarian forces, at the end of which his forces were reduced by hunger to eating their horses. He obtained an honourable surrender. *1646–1648: Col. Richard Fortescue (d.1657), for Parliament. His relationship to the prominent Devonshire family of Fortescue of Filleigh and Weare Giffard is unclear. He was seated at Hickfield in the county of Southampton, and was later Commander-in-Chief in Jamaica, where he died in 1657.〔www.fortescue.org()〕 *1648-1649: John Fox, for Parliament/Commonwealth.〔Nicholas Hals Pender, A Falmouth Guide, 1825, p.86〕 *1649–1658?: Sir Hardres Waller, for Parliament/Commonwealth.〔Nicholas Hals Pender, A Falmouth Guide, 1825, p.86〕 *1659–1660: Anthony Rowse, for Parliament/Commonwealth. *1660–1662: Sir Peter Killigrew, 2nd Baronet (c. 1634-1704), appointed at the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, by General George Monck.〔Nicholas Hals Pender, A Falmouth Guide, 1825, p.86〕 A grandson of the 3rd Governor John V Killigrew (c.1557-1605), of Arwennack. *1662: Richard Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Trerice (c.1616-1687), 2nd son of Governor Sir John VII Arundell (1576–1654), of Trerice, "Jack-for-the-King". *1680–1696: John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628-1701), of Stowe, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, who played a leading role in the Restoration of the Monarchy of 1660. He was a cousin of the Arundells of Trerice.〔They shared common descent from Sir Thomas Grenville (died 1513)〕 *1696–1703: Bevil Granville (d.1706), a nephew of the previous Governor John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628-1701) *1703–1714: George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne, successor to his brother, Governor Bevil Granville (d.1706) *1714–1725: Richard Munden *1726–1734: John Hobart *1735–1737: James Tyrrell *1737–1749: William Barrell *1749–1753: John Laforey *1753–1774: Arthur Owen *1774–1775: Charles Beauclerk *1775–1793: Robert Robinson *1793–1823: Felix Buckley *1823–1832: Sir Martin Hunter *1832–1837: Paul Anderson *''office abolished'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Governor of Pendennis Castle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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