Culture of Cornwall Cornish poets. The Nobel-prizewinning novelist William Golding who was born in St Columb Minor in 1911, and returned to live near Truro from 1985 until his death in 1993. Other notable Cornish writers include Arthur Quiller-Couch, alias "Q", novelist and literary critic, Jack Clemo, deaf-blind poet, Ronald Bottrall, modernist poet, Robert Stephen Hawker, eccentric Victorian poet and priest, Geoffrey Grigson, poet and critic, Silas Hocking, a prolific novelist, and D. M. Thomas, novelist and poet. The late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman was famously fond of Cornwall and it featured prominently in his poetry. He is buried in the churchyard
Sir Arthur Monck, 7th Baronet Sir Arthur Monck, 7th Baronet Sir Arthur Edward Middleton, M.P., 7th Baronet (12 January 1838 – 1 April 1933) was a British MP. He was born Arthur Edward Monck, the son of Charles Atticus Monck (1805–1856) of Belsay Castle, Northumberland, by his wife Laura, daughter of Sir Mathew White Ridley (1778–1836) 3rd Bt., M.P., of Blagdon Hall, Northumberland. He succeeded to the Baronetcy of Belsay Castle on the death of his grandfather in 1867. His grandfather had changed his name from Middleton to Monck in 1799, and in 1876 the 7th Baronet and his brothers changed their name from Monck