Richard Treffry was the Methodist preacher whose diary is quoted in a modern local-history account of Newquay’s Old Inn, later the Central. The account places him at an inn run by Mr Carter in August 1802 and records a later complaint about drunken and quarrelsome company.
His observations offer a glimpse of the town before its railway and resort expansion. They should be attributed to the diary as reproduced in the later account until the original manuscript is inspected. This Richard Treffry is a different person from Joseph Thomas Treffry, the industrialist associated with mines, harbours and tramways.
Sources
Source 1: https://www.cornwallheritage.com/ertach-kernow-blogs-2026-2027/small-cornish-archives-saving-local-knowledge/ Wesley Historical Society Proceedings XVIII, pp. 30–32: diary extracts and provenance: https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/whs/18-2.pdf Wesley Historical Society: manuscript-journal bibliographic source note: https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/whs/32-4.pdf
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