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| November 17th | Charles Rashleigh (Birth) |
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Charles Rashleigh (1747 – 1823) was born at Menabilly, which later became the home, for twenty years, of Daphne du Maurier (May 13th). The seventh son and tenth child of Jonathan Rashleigh FRS, MP for Fowey, he trained as an attorney in London until returning in 1769 to run the estate upon the death of his father. Rashleigh settled in St. Austell in a large townhouse, which is now the White Hart Hotel, and married into even greater wealth, two years later, upon his wedding to Grace Tremayne of Heligan. He then also bought a country home at Duporth. The lands and villages he managed included Porthmear Cove, which amounted to a handful of cottages around a fishing cove, with a total population of nine, which he decided, with the burgeoning china clay industry, could be developed as a port. This was designed by John Smeaton, the architect of the 3rd Eddystone Lighthouse and became known as ‘Charlestown’. In later life, Rashleigh was ruined by putting his trust in his clerks Joseph Dingle and Joseph Daniel who defrauded him. |
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