Robert Morton Nance

Chronology of his life

• 1898: He wrote "The Merry Ballad of the Cornish Pasty".
• 1906: He moved from Wales and settled at Nancledra near St Ives, Cornwall.
• 1911: He jointly founded the Society for Nautical Research.
• 1920: Together with Henry Jenner, he founded the first Old Cornwall Society at St Ives.
• 1924: The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies was established.
• 1925: The Federation established the periodical Old Cornwall.
• 1928: He jointly founded the Gorsedh Kernow, which was inaugurated at Boscawen-Un, where he took the bardic name Mordon.
• 1929: He published Cornish for All using the Unified Cornish spelling system.

• 1959: He died and was buried at St Senara's Church, Zennor

  Selected list of works

• 1912:
• 1923: A Glossary of Celtic Words in Cornish Dialect. Falmouth: Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
• 1924: Sailing-ship Models: a selection from European and American collections with introductory text. London: Halton and Truscott Smith
• *---do.---2nd rev. ed. London; New York: Halton, 1949
• *Classic Sailing-ship Models in Photographs. Reprinted Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 2000
• 1925- : Old Cornwall, as editor and contributor.
• *Articles in Old Cornwall, including "The Cornish Language in the Seventeenth Century", in: Old Cornwall; vol. VI, no. 1.
• 1955: Cornish-English Dictionary. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
• 1956: The Cledry Plays: drolls of Old Cornwall for village acting and home reading. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies B0000CJH1W
• 1961: Cornish for All: a guide to Unified Cornish. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. B0000CKWG1
• : A Guide to Cornish Place-names; with a list of the words contained in them. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies.