Richard Gendall
✓ Source-basedstableCornish-language activist
Professor Richard Roscow Morris "Dick" Gendall was a British expert on the Cornish language. He was the third of four children and the only son of the Reverend Philip Parsons Gendall and Mary EB Hand.
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Professor Richard Roscow Morris "Dick" Gendall was a British expert on the Cornish language. He was the third of four children and the only son of the Reverend Philip Parsons Gendall and Mary EB Hand. His father was a minister who worked in a number Following National Service in the Royal Navy during World War II, he studied linguistics and music in the University of Leeds. Then he began to learn Cornish from R. Morton Nance and A.S.D. Smith but he was disappointed that the language was not being spoken. He began a campaign to revive Cornish as a spoken language. In 1952 he founded the Cornish language magazine An Lef, but resigned the editorship after a year to E.G.R Hooper. He also founded the learners' magazine Hedhyu which lasted from 1956 - 1961. Through his efforts Kesva an Taves Kernewek was established in 1967.
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