Glynn House

Glynn House is a Grade II* listed building near Cardinham in the county of Cornwall,^[1][2] once the seat of the Glynn family and later the seat of Sir Hussey Vivian.

History

In the past it was the home of John Glynn and Edmund John Glynn. Edmund John Glynn rebuilt the house at Glynn in 1805 (it has a front of nine bays and a portico).^[3]

Current use

It is now the home of Glynn Research Ltd, founded by Peter D. Mitchell, a Nobel Prize winner, and Jennifer Moyle, who co-founded to a charitable research company known as Glynn Research Ltd. They began working together between 1948 and 1952.^[4]

Moyle and Mitchell founded Glynn Research in 1964, to promote biological research, however actually laboratory work did not begin until 1965.

Moyle worked with Mitchell worked on his hypothesis on Chemiosmotic Theory. Moyle proved to be an important associate, designing many of the experiments needed to test the hypothesis, and helped earn Mitchell the Nobel Prize in 1978.

See also

• Manor of Glynn

References

1. "Glynn House - Cardinham - Cornwall - England". British Listed Buildings. 1951-06-15. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
2. Historic England. "Glynn House  (Grade II*) (1143108)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
3. Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed. Penguin Books
4. Crofts, Antony. "Peter Mitchell (1920 - 1992)". University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 11 July 2015.

Further reading

• Betjeman, John (April 1933) "Two Cornish houses: Glynn; Boconnoc", in: Architectural Review (reprinted in Betjeman's Britain; selected, edited and introduced by Candida Lycett Green. London: John Murray, 1999; pp. 43–51)

Coordinates: 50°27′14″N 4°39′32″W / 50.4539°N 4.6590°W