[3] Biscoe represented Cornwall Council's Truro Boscawen District as an independent Cornwall Councillor until 2019, serving as an independent Truro City Council Councillor for the new Boscawen & Redannick Ward.

[4] Bert Biscoe is known for his work as a local historian[5] and for his activism related to the Cornish identity debate.

[6] In 2012, his book of poems called "Trurra" won a Waterstones Publishers Award at the Holyer An Gof literary competition.

[8] Born in 1952 to Dr Charles Biscoe, a kinsman of the Tyndale-Biscoe family,[9] he was raised at Stithians, Cornwall, and attended Truro School before going up to Bangor University.

[20] Biscoe was also an independent County Councillor on Cornwall Council for Truro Boscawen District until he lost his seat in the May 2021 elections.