Philip Payton

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Philip John Payton
Born1953 (age 7172)
Sussex, England
Academic background
Alma mater

In 1990 he gained a second doctorate, from the University of Plymouth, for a study of modern Cornwall from a centre-periphery perspective. [7] He joined the University of Exeter as director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, then situated at Pool, near Redruth, in 1991 but now at the Penryn Campus. He was promoted Reader in 1995 and Professor in 2000. [8] He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. In 2013 he was elected an Hon Fellow of the prestigious Australian Academy of the Humanities, shortly before stepping down as director of the Institute of Cornish Studies. He is now emeritus professor of Cornish and Australian studies at the University of Exeter, as well as professor of history at Flinders University in Australia.

Amongst his many bookd and articles are Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia's Little Cornwall (2007), A. L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), and the acclaimed Cornwall – A History, first published in 1996 and updated in 2004, which remains a major modern authoritative history of Cornwall. Other titles include The Cornish Miner in Australia (1984), The Making of Modern Cornwall (1992), and Cornwall Since the War (1993). He also edited the annual book series, Cornish Studies, published by University of Exeter Press, for twenty years, and was editor-in-chief of the Millennium Book for Cornwall Kernow Bys Vyken! – Cornwall Forever!, published by Cornwall Heritage Trust and distributed free to every schoolchild in Cornwall in 2000.

His other research interests in Modern Cornish history include Cornish emigration; ethnicity and territorial politics; and centre-periphery relations. [9]

In 2010 he completed a book on John Betjeman and Cornwall: 'The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist' (University of Exeter Press), and is editing[ when? ] (with Helen Doe and Alston Kennerley) a Maritime History of Cornwall. Among his other books are Regional Australia and the Great War: "The Boys from Old Kio" (University of Exeter Press, 2012), and a History of Sussex, published in 2017. [10]

Bard of the Cornish Gorseth

Payton was made a Bard of Gorseth Kernow in 1981, taking the Bardic name Car Dyvresow ('Friend of Exiles').

In 2006 Payton's book A. L. Rowse and Cornwall: a paradoxical patriot won the Gorseth's Holyer an Gof trophy for best publication. [11] [12]

Personal life

He has two adult daughters. [2]

Select publications

Books

Articles (selected)

References

  1. British Australian Studies Association
  2. 1 2 3 4 Cornwall Today Vol. 3 No. 1 p. 68: "Interview with Dr Philip Payton by Alan Murton" (?1991): "Philip Payton was born in Sussex in 1953. Cornish on his mother's side, his family has been rooted in the Constantine-Helston area for generations, although nineteenth-century emigrant relations roamed as far as Mexico, America and South Africa. He has spent most of his life in Cornwall, although as a child he lived for a time in both Australia and Sussex (where he attended Haywards Heath Grammar School). His mother was Hazel Williams (b. Constantine 1923, d. Falmouth 2004), and his father Thomas Payton was a merchant seaman before going on to a distinguished business and academic career. He lives in Falmouth. The Payton family originated in Co. Mayo and Co. Roscommon, moving to England in the 1850s to join the Liverpool-Irish community, though later converting to Protestantism and moving south'. (see F. B. Payton, "Notes on the Ó Peatáins of Donegal, Mayo and Roscommon", in: The Irish Genealogist; Vol.4, No.4, November 1971, pp. 303–07
  3. "A history of Sussex (due in 2012)". Carnegie Publishing. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
  4. Haywards Heath Grammar School is now part of Central Sussex College
  5. Poster for Lecture to the Australian National University June 2006.
  6. Cornwall editions website
  7. Modern Cornwall: The Changing Nature of Peripherality: A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements of the Council For National Academic Awards For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, (1989).
  8. "New Cornish studies professor appointed: 'This is a huggnificant appointment – for the institute, its staff, and for Cornwall'" Western Morning News Tuesday, 1 August 2000.
  9. University of Exeter-Postgraduate Research Degrees website.
  10. Payton, Philip (2017). A history of Sussex. ISBN   978-1-85936-232-7.
  11. "Gorsedd prizes reward publishing prowess". Western Morning News . 11 July 2006.
  12. "Gorseth Kernow Council Awards / Pewasow Consel an Orseth Kernow, 2006" (in English and Cornish). Gorseth Kernow. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 16 December 2008.