Edwin Octavius Tregelles

Edwin Octavius Tregelles (1806–1886) of Tregelles and Fox

Born on 19 October 1806 at Falmouth, the youngest of the seventeen children (eight being twins) of Samuel and Rebecca.

1820 Edwin Tregelles was apprenticed to his cousin Joseph Tregelles Price (1784–1854), managing partner of the Neath Abbey Iron Co.

1886 Died. 'Our obituary announces the death of Mr Edwin Octavius Tregelles who was a native of Falmouth and a member of the old Quaker family of that name. Born in Market-street in 1806 in a fine house which destroyed the great fire of 1870 - the youngest of of seventeen of whom two survive him - he studied civil engineering at Neath in Wales. Most old Falmouthians will recollect the time many years ago when his home at Grove Place was the centre of great interest from fact that with staff of assistants he engaged in engineering the railway route from Truro to Falmouth. Besides this important undertaking Mr Tregelles designed several minor works which the patent slip at Falmouth, a most successful construction which proved very profitable to its owner. Mr Tregelles early became an accredited minister of the Gospel and in that capacity visited the West Indies preaching to the liberated slaves, and during his long and devoted life engaged in many missions to distant parts.....'

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