Philip Payton
Philip John Payton | |
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Born | 1953 (age 70–71) Sussex, England |
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Discipline | Historian |
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Military career | |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1979–2003 |
Rank | Commander |
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Philip John Payton
Birth and education
He was born in 1953 in
In 1979 he joined the Royal Navy as an officer in the Instructor Branch, training at the Britannia Royal Naval College (HMS Dartmouth) (Dartmouth) and at sea in HMS Intrepid before being appointed to HMS Fisgard at Torpoint in Cornwall. Subsequently, he served at HMS Cochrane, HMS Collingwood and at the Royal Naval Engineering College at Manadon (HMS Thunderer) .[2]
In 1989 was appointed Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
Until his retirement from the service, he held the rank of commander in the
Academic career
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In 1990 he gained a second doctorate, from the University of Plymouth, for a study of modern Cornwall from a centre-periphery perspective.[7] He joined the University of Exeter as Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, then situated at Pool, near Redruth, in 1991 but now at the Penryn Campus. He was promoted Reader in 1995 and Professor in 2000.[8] He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. In 2013 he was elected an Hon Fellow of the prestigious Australian Academy of the Humanities, shortly before stepping down as Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies. He is now Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies at the University of Exeter, as well as Professor of History at Flinders University in Australia.
Amongst his many book and articles are Making
His other research interests in Modern Cornish history include
In 2010, he completed a book on John Betjeman and Cornwall: 'The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist' (University of Exeter Press), and is editing (with Helen Doe and Alston Kennerley) a Maritime History of Cornwall. Among his other books are Regional Australia and the Great War: "The Boys from Old Kio" (University of Exeter Press, 2012), and a History of Sussex, published in 2017.[10]
Bard of the Cornish Gorseth
Payton was made a
In 2006 Payton's book A.L. Rowse and Cornwall : a paradoxical patriot won the Gorseth's Holyer an Gof trophy for best publication.[11][12]
Personal life
He las two adult daughters.[2]
Select publications
- Payton, P.; Kennerley, A.; Doe, H., eds. (2014). The Maritime History of Cornwall. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. ISBN 978-0-85989-850-8.
- Payton, P. (2007). Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia's Little Cornwall. Exeter: ISBN 978-0-85989-796-9
- Payton, P. (2005). A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A paradoxical patriot. Exeter: ISBN 978-0-85989-798-3.
- Payton, P. (1984). Cornish Carols from Australia / A New Edition of "The Christmas Welcome". Vol. (Introduction). Trewirgie: Dyllansow Truran. ISBN 0-907566-92-8.
- Payton, P. (1999). The Cornish eclipse 1649–1751: An illustrated lecture. Commissioned by Artys war anow Kernow (Verbal Arts Cornwall) for the Daphne du Maurier Festival of Arts & Literature.
- Payton, P. (1987). The Cornish farmer in Australia or, Australian adventure : Cornish colonists and the expansion of Adelaide and the South Australian agricultural frontier. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran. ISBN 1-85022-029-8.
- Payton, P (1984). The Cornish miner in Australia : (cousin Jack down under). Redruth: Dyllansow Truran. ISBN 0-907566-51-0.
- Payton, P. (1999). The Cornish overseas. Fowey: Alexander Associates. ISBN 1-904880-04-5
- Payton, P. (1996). Cornwall. Fowey: Alexander Associates. ISBN 1-904880-00-2
- Payton, P., ed. (2000). Cornwall for ever! = Kernow bys vyken!. Cornwall Heritage Trust.
- Payton, P., ed. (1993). Cornwall Since the War: The Contemporary History of a European Region. Redruth: ISBN 1-85022-073-5.
- Payton, P. (2002). Cornwall's history: An introduction. Redruth: Tor Mark Press. ISBN 0-85025-392-6.
- Payton, P. (1992). The Making of Modern Cornwall: Historical experience and the persistence of "difference". Redruth: Dyllansow Truran. ISBN 1-85022-064-6.
- Payton, P. (2005). "Maritime history and the emigration trade: the case of mid-nineteenth-century Cornwall". History in Focus. The Sea. Retrieved 19 March 2008.
- Payton, P.; Hale, Amy, eds. (2000). New Directions in Celtic Studies. Exeter: ISBN 0-85989-622-6.
- Payton, P. (1997). "Re-Inventing Celtic Australia: Notions of Celtic Identity From the Colonial Period to the Era of Multi-Culturalism". Australian Studies. 12 (2).
- Payton, P. (2007). Making ISBN 978-0-85989-795-2
- Payton, P. (1983). The story of HMS Fisgard. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran. ISBN 0-907566-56-1.
- Payton, P. (1987). Tregantle and Scraesdon: Their forts and railway. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran. ISBN 1-85022-038-7.
- Payton, P. (2002). A Vision of Cornwall. Vol. (Foreword by OCLC 52762045.
- Payton, P. (2010). John Betjeman and Cornwall. Exeter: ISBN 978-0-85989-848-5
- Payton, P. (1978). Pictorial history of Australia's Little Cornwall. Adelaide: Rigby. ISBN 0-7270-0604-5.
References
- ^ Payton is also Vice-President of the British Australian Studies Association
- ^ , moving to England in the 1850s to join the Liverpool-Irish community, though later converting to Protestantism and moving south'. (see F. B. Payton, "Notes on the Ó Peatáins of Donegal, Mayo and Roscommon", in: The Irish Genealogist; Vol.4, No.4, November 1971, pp. 303–07
- ^ "A history of Sussex (due in 2012)". Carnegie Publishing. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- Central Sussex College
- ^ Poster for Lecture to the Australian National University June 2006.
- ^ Cornwall editions website
- ^ Modern Cornwall: The Changing Nature of Peripherality: A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements of the Council For National Academic Awards For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, (1989).
- ^ "New Cornish studies professor appointed: 'This is a huggnificant appointment – for the institute, its staff, and for Cornwall'" Western Morning News Tuesday, 1 August 2000.
- ^ University of Exeter-Postgraduate Research Degrees website.
- ISBN 978-1-85936-232-7.
- ^ "Gorsedd prizes reward publishing prowess". Western Morning News. 11 July 2006.
- Gorseth Kernow. Archived from the originalon 21 November 2008. Retrieved 16 December 2008.