Memorial To Johnathan Couch In Couch Burial Ground 30 Metres To West Of Chy Chapel

LANSALLOS SX 15 SE 3/7 Memorial to Jonathan Couch in burial ground 30m to west of Chy Chapel II

Churchyard memorial. 1870. In memory of Jonathan Couch FLS and also wife, Jane Quiller who died in 1857. Granite obelisk on tall plinth with moulded cornice and square base. Jonathan Couch (1789-1870), celebrated Cornish naturalist, doctor, apothecary, classical scholar, zoologist, botanist, itchthyologist and archaeologist. Contributed much to scientific knowledge in the C19 publishing works which included; Cornish Fauna, 1838, The History of the Fishes of the British Isles 4 vols, 1862-1865 and a Calendar of Natural History observed at Polperro 1842. In 1871 his son, Thomas Quiller Couch published his father's notes on The History of Polperro. See also Couch's House, Lansallos Street, Polperro. Couch, Bertha The life of Jonathan Couch 1891 Couch, J The History of Polperro 1871 de Burlet, S Portrait of Polperro 1977 Lanyon, A The Rooks of Trelawne 1976

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