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Hmmm. but he doesn't seem to have been baptised with that middle name - despite what Wiki may say.


So possibly all to do with Richard Trevithick. :-S

Ah, well, I know Wiki's not foolproof!

In that case you're probably right, Cynthia.

Derek Alan Trevithick Tangye (29 February 1912 – 26 October 1996) was a British author who lived in Cornwall for nearly fifty years. He wrote 19 books which became known as 'The Minack Chronicles', about life on a clifftop daffodil farm in the far west of Cornwall, and yes he wrote about cats, seagulls etc. He had been a newspaper columnist & during the war worked for MI5. His brother Nigel Tangye was also an author. They were grandsons of the engineer Richard Tangye.

Thanks for that Cassie
My memory tends to be a bit fuzzy these days. I loved his books & my brother & sister in law moved from Birmingham in 1996 to live very near to Minack. We are all cat lovers which is why the books were so appealing.

Thank you to everyone who has replied to this thread and those who suggested that I should research the family myself are quite correct - that would probably provide the information if it exists. But this is not a family history inquiry - I'm doing some research on the Tangye engineering firm in Birmingham and I thought it would add to the interest if I could mention a family connection with Richard Trevithick, as both he and the Tangyes came from Illogan. But at best it would make a single sentence in my report so I won't be doing the family research required to establish that. I had hoped, as a long shot, that someone might be already researching both families and could confirm the connection but as that isn't the case I will simply note the inclusion of Trevithick's name in use in the Tangye family.
Thanks again to everyone who replied.