page_title: Truro
section_title: Arts
hierarchical_section_title: Truro / Notable residents / Arts
caption_attribution_description: English: William Golding
context_page_description: Truro is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK. It is Cornwall's county town and only city, as well as being its centre for administration, leisure and retail. Its population was recorded as 18,766 in the 2011 census. People from Truro are known as Truronians. Truro grew as a centre of trade from its port and then as a stannary town for the tin-mining industry. It became entitled to be called a city in 1876, with the founding of the Diocese of Truro, and thereby became mainland Britain's southernmost city. Places of interest include the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro Cathedral, the Hall for Cornwall, and Cornwall's Courts of Justice.
context_section_description: Giles Farnaby (c. 1563–1640), composer and virginalist
  Samuel Foote (1720–1777), actor and playwright
  Henry Bone (1755–1834), porcelain, jewellery and enamel painter
  Joseph Antonio Emidy (1775–1835), former slave from Guinea turned violinist
  Charles William Hempel (1777–1855), organist of St Mary's Church, Truro, and poet
  Nicholas Michell (1807–1880) a Cornish writer, best known for his poetry
  Charles Frederick Hempel (1811–1867), organist and composer
  Walter Hawken Tregellas (1831–1894) professional draughtsman and historical and biographical writer
  Francis Charles Hingeston-Randolph (1833–1910), cleric, antiquary and author
  Henry Dawson Lowry (1869–1906), journalist, short story writer, novelist and poet
  Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) novelist, who attended a preparatory school in Truro
  Maria Kuncewiczowa (1895–1989), Polish writer living in Truro after WWII. Her novel Tristan 1946 was set here.
  Margaret Steuart Pollard (1904–1996), poet and translator lived in Truro from 1930s
  William Golding (1911–1993), novelist, playwright and poet, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. Born in St Columb Minor, he returned to live near Truro until he died.
  Alison Adburgham (1912–1997), author, social historian and fashion editor of The Guardian
  Roger Taylor (born 1949), drummer from the rock band Queen
  Robert Goddard (born 1954), novelist, lives in Truro.
  James Marsh (born 1963), film director and Academy Award winner
  Ben Salfield (born 1971), guitarist, lutenist, composer and teacher, has lived in Truro since age of nine.
  Paul Kerensa (born 1979), comedy writer and stand-up comedian
  Brett Harvey (born c. 1980), film writer and director based in Cornwall
  Calvin Dean (born 1985), award-winning actor
caption: William Golding, 1983
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