Glynn House is a Grade II* listed building near Cardinham in the county of Cornwall, once the seat of the Glynn family and later the seat of Sir Hussey Vivian.
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History
In the past it was the home of John Glynn and Edmund John Glynn. Edmund John Glynn rebuilt the house at Glynn in 1805 (it has a front of nine bays and a portico).
Current use
It is now the home of Glynn Research Ltd, founded by Peter D. Mitchell, a Nobel Prize winner, and Jennifer Moyle, who co-founded to a charitable research company known as Glynn Research Ltd. They began working together between 1948 and 1952.
Moyle and Mitchell founded Glynn Research in 1964, to promote biological research, however actually laboratory work did not begin until 1965.
Moyle worked with Mitchell worked on his hypothesis on Chemiosmotic Theory. Moyle proved to be an important associate, designing many of the experiments needed to test the hypothesis, and helped earn Mitchell the Nobel Prize in 1978.