William Gwavas

He was articled to James Holt, an attorney in Lyon's Inn, and then entered the Middle Temple, where he purchased a ground chamber, No.

With this rectory he had inherited a chancery suit, begun on 14 June 1680, as to the right of the rector to take tithe of fish landed at Newlyn and Mousehole.

[1] About 1710 Edward Lhuyd visited Cornwall, and conferred with Gwavas, Thomas Tonkin, and John Keigwin as to the formation of a "Cornu-British vocabulary".

In the dedication to Tonkin's Parochial History of Cornwall, 1733, the only part of the work that was printed, the author said Gwavas had helped him with Cornish vocabulary and texts.

[1] On 29 April 1717 Gwavas married Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Harris of St. Ives, Cornwall, with whom he received a portion of £1,500.