Many Cornishmen wanted him for their official Poet Laureate, cocking a deliberate snub at their long-felt colonisation by Anglo-Saxons.

ECONOMIST: Charles Causley

Jean Ellis, of Eagle Harbor, Michigan, a former teacher who is also a descendant of Cornish immigrants, has researched Cornish migration and said from the late 1800s there was a "stream of young Cornishmen carrying unique skills and knowledge to every mining camp in North America".

BBC: Cornwall