Bolitho is a small village in west Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. It is situated approximately one-and-a-half miles (2 km) east of Praze-an-Beeble

Praze-An-Beeble

Praze-An-Beeble , sometimes shortened to Praze, is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is located between the nearby towns of Camborne and Helston in the civil parish of Crowan....

 and is in the civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 of Crowan

Crowan

Crowan is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately three-and-a-half miles south of Camborne. The River Hayle rises near Crowan and flows through the village and the railway branch to Helston passed nearby. Crowan has a population of 2,375...

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Bolitho family

The surname Bolitho derives from this place. Some of the Bolithos were merchant princes, the Bolitho family's growth to prominence started with Thomas Bolitho (1765–1868). The family were initially tanners, who moved into lime-burning and tin smelting before becoming bankers. Their Bank eventually merged with Barclays in 1905.. The arms of Bolitho are "Ermine on a plain chevron five bezants between two chevronels engrailed and three fleurs-de-lis Sable", with the motto "Re deu". The Paschal lamb in the borough arms of Penzance

Penzance

Penzance is a town, civil parish, and port in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is approximately 75 miles west of Plymouth and 300 miles west-southwest of London...

 derives from the tin smelting mark used by the Bolithos of Gulval

Gulval

Gulval is a village in the former Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. Although historically a parish in its own right, Gulval was incorporated into the parishes of Penzance, Madron and Ludgvan in 1934, and like Heamoor, is now considered to be a suburb of Penzance...

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The Old Inn—a public house in Gulval Churchtown—was given to the Coldstream Guards

Coldstream Guards

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 Association in memory of Capt. Michael Lempriere Bolitho and renamed “The Coldstreamer” (Capt. Bolitho was killed on HMS Walney

HMS Walney

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Walney after Walney Island off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria:* HMS Walney was a Banff-class sloop launched in 1930 as USS Sebago. She was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1941 and was lost in 1942.* HMS Walney is a Sandown-class minehunter,...

, a Royal Navy tug; her task was to crash through the boom at the entrance to Oran Harbour in Operation Torch

Operation Torch

Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, started on 8 November 1942....

on November 8, 1942).

External links

• Bolitho genealogical webpages