Comments on: Joseph Merceron v Ross Poldark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/28/joseph-merceron-v-ross-poldark/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:27:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John Merceron https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/28/joseph-merceron-v-ross-poldark/#comment-1745608 Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:27:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175950#comment-1745608 Interesting .

I hope there is no connection between Joseph and myself, John Merceron.
my family are doing some Research into our name at the moment.

]]> By: Ellen Moody https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/28/joseph-merceron-v-ross-poldark/#comment-1301262 Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:33:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175950#comment-1301262 Thank you very much for this blog and the link to the book. I find Debbie Horsfield’s incorporation of a figure like Merceron — Merceron himself — in accordance with all Graham’s fiction.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/28/joseph-merceron-v-ross-poldark/#comment-1301030 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:06:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175950#comment-1301030 I loved the fact that you got access to papers that had been locked away in a tin chest for two hundred years. What an exciting find! Merceron sounded a nasty piece of work, and even the profile on his silhouette portrait looks sinister.

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/28/joseph-merceron-v-ross-poldark/#comment-1301028 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 18:47:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175950#comment-1301028 I also thoroughly recommend the book and Julian’s amazing research.
Corruption and greed …..all in plain sight. Nothing much has changed since Regency times!

]]> By: Julian Woodford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/28/joseph-merceron-v-ross-poldark/#comment-1300999 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:09:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175950#comment-1300999 To Annette Shoff-Keith: in short, not a lot! This is the age-old story of bribery and corruption in local politics, diverting public money into private pockets. Like many similar figures today, Merceron often gave money to charity – making sure that his ‘generosity’ waa given maximum publicity.

]]> By: Julian Woodford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/28/joseph-merceron-v-ross-poldark/#comment-1300997 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:04:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175950#comment-1300997 To Paul Loften: it was the small matter of £500 left by Renvoize to Parmiters in his will. As so often the case, nobody seemed to ask where he got the money from!

]]> By: Ellen Moody https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/28/joseph-merceron-v-ross-poldark/#comment-1300972 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:26:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175950#comment-1300972 Thank you so much for this. I truly value it as I’m studying Graham’s oeuvre, both the books he wrote and the films which sprung from them. Ellen

]]> By: Paul Loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/28/joseph-merceron-v-ross-poldark/#comment-1300961 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 11:06:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175950#comment-1300961 I honoured Peter Renvoize’s name as a footballer, cricketer and runner at Parmiters school in Bethnal Green and wore a blue stripe in my school tie for six years to show that I belonged to his house without knowing he was such a villain. Alas! They forget to tell you tell you these little details . Although he must have done the school some good for them to name a house after him

]]> By: Annette T Shoff-Keith https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/28/joseph-merceron-v-ross-poldark/#comment-1300959 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:54:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175950#comment-1300959 Great write, enjoyable, photos and history of this egotistical man, did he bring any value for others to live life better from his antics? He stole from the community?

USA New Orleans, LA, Hewey Long, The Fish. A monster in the midst, I call him.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/28/joseph-merceron-v-ross-poldark/#comment-1300956 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:36:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175950#comment-1300956 Greetings from Boston,

GA, thank you for sharing Joe McLaren’s account of his research into the life of Joseph Merceron. What persistence will do! Particularly fascinating is the treasure trove and leads he received from the long lost nephew Daniel.

Well done!

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