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Author Winston Graham Michael Galsworthy, who lives on the family’s 300-yearold estate near Truro, certainly sees the similarities. And the author told him his characters were based on Cornish “gentry” akin to his ancestors. Michael said: “I met Winston during a lunch.
“We were discussing his novels and he explained that he used people like Thomas and Anne Hawkins when creating his characters.”
Thomas was born in 1724, son of a leading barrister and public official. He SOME fans believe another real-life hero may have influenced the character of Poldark.
Ross is a British Army officer and American Revolutionary war veteran who returns to his native Cornwall and becomes an MP. Author Winston Graham’s notes reveal that he researched the life of Lieut Gen Sir Richard went to Pembroke College, Cambridge and, at 23, became MP for the Grampound constituency near Truro.
He inherited the Trewithen estate from his uncle Phillip, also a barrister.
Thomas owned lucrative tin mines which employed hundreds of people and took great interest in their welfare. He Hussey Vivian, a Cornishman, Battle of Waterloo veteran and politician.
Born in Truro in 1775, Vivian’s father owned a successful copper smelting and mining business.
But Vivian joined the Army as a lieutenant in the 54th Regiment of Foot.
He headed campaigns in Spain and at Waterloo led the 6th Cavalry Brigade in charges that helped decimate the French forces and led to Napoleon’s defeat.
Vivian was mentioned in dispatches and received several more honours.
He returned to Cornwall and became a Member of Parliament — and in 1841 was made Baron Vivian of Glynn and Truro. fell in love with Anne Heywood — brunette not a redhead like Demel — whose father agreed they cou marry so long as his architect got the of doing up their mansion.
The couple went on to have four s and one daughter. But tragedy str when their eldest son John, 13, drow