Abstract
Owen Baker of 7 Canterbury Road, Exwick, Exeter, EX4 2BQ, has very kindly sent us a file of information on the Lavins of Penzance, their Museum and Mineral Collections for which we are very grateful. It can be divided thus: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION. a) Lavin, John. c/. BihL Comuh* 1204. Stationer, and Mineralogist and Geologist; Built the Egyptian hall, Chupel St, Penzance; dead, m 5 Feb. 1822 at lllogan, Frances Eoberts of Paul.. She d Chapel st. Penzance 19 Rich. 1864 aged 61..Issue i Edward Lavin, formerly mineralogist and printer, Chapel st. Penzance; He sold the whole of his collection of minerals to Miss Burdett Coutts (now Baroness Burdett Coutts) who gave the collection...
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