OS grid reference SW6634 Country England Post town Camborne Shire county Cornwall | Region South West Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district TR14 | |
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Bolitho (/bəˈlaɪθoʊ/ bə-LY-thoh) is a small village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Praze-an-Beeble and is in the civil parish of Crowan (where the 2011 Census population was included).
There is also a place called Bolitho in the civil parish of Menheniot.
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. The Bolitho 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 derives from the tin smelting mark used by the Bolithos of Gulval.
The Old Inn, a public house in Gulval Churchtown, was given to the Coldstream Guards Association in memory of Capt. Michael Lempriere Bolitho and renamed "The Coldstreamer" (Capt. Bolitho was killed on HMS Walney, a Royal Navy tug; her task was to crash through the boom at the entrance to Oran Harbour in Operation Torch on 8 November 1942).