Joan Rendell
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Joan Rendell MBE was a Cornish historian, writer and phillumenist. For most of her life her home was at Werrington
Werrington, Cornwall
Werrington is a civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was formerly in Devon.In Werrington Park is a substantial house built by Sir Francis Drake about 1620. A larger mansion was built next to it on the site of old parish church in the early 18th century...

. She was the daughter of Gervase Rendell, of St Austell.

Miss Rendell was the author of more than 30 books mainly on Cornish subjects. In September 1980 she was made a Bard of Gorsedh Kernow, taking the name Scryfer Weryn (Writer of Werrington). She was also an avid collector of matchbox
Matchbox
A matchbox is a box made of cardboard or thin wood designed to hold matches. It usually has a coarse striking surface on one edge for lighting the matches contained inside....

 covers and had an estimated collection of 300,000. Another interest of hers was corn-dolly making about which she also wrote a book.
Joan Rendell died in a fire at her bungalow near Launceston, Cornwall on Tuesday 4 May 2010.

Awards

She was awarded the MBE
MBE
MBE can stand for:* Mail Boxes Etc.* Management by exception* Master of Bioethics* Master of Bioscience Enterprise* Master of Business Engineering* Master of Business Economics* Mean Biased Error...

 in 1958, for raising £100,000 in National Savings
National savings
In economics, a country's national savings is the sum of private and public savings. It is generally equal to a nation's income minus consumption and government purchases.- Economic model of national savings :...

 stamps. She went on to be national chairman of the National Savings Bank
National Savings and Investments
National Savings and Investments , formerly called the Post Office Savings Bank and National Savings, is a state-owned savings bank in the United Kingdom. It is an executive agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer...

. In 1977 she was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal.

Publications (selected)

  • Cornwall Strange but True
  • Collecting Matchbox Labels
  • The Story of the Bude Canal
    Bude Canal
    The Bude Canal was a canal built to serve the hilly hinterland in the Devon and Cornwall border territory in the United Kingdom, chiefly to bring lime-bearing sand for agricultural fertiliser. The Bude Canal system was one of the most unusual in Britain....

    . Callington: Stannary Press, 1978
  • Along the Bude Canal. Bodmin: Bossiney Books, 1979
  • Around Bude and Stratton
  • Cornwall's Historic Buildings
  • The Book of Werrington: a pictorial celebration
  • Lundy Island. St Teath: Bossiney Books
  • North Cornwall in the Old Days
  • Hawker Country. St Teath: Bossiney Books
  • Around Launceston
  • Country Crafts
  • Saltash
  • Cornish Churches. St Teath: Bossiney Books, 1982
  • Gateway to Cornwall. St Teath: Bossiney Books

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