Borlase is a

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and masculine given name. A branch of the family De Taillefer, of

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, who were descended from the

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, came to England before the reign of Henry III (1207–1272). A king granted lands in the parish of

St Wenn St Wenn () is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated west of Bodmin and east of Newquay. The parish population at the 2011 census was 369. Other settlements in the parish include Rosenannon, ...

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to Frank (French) Borlas Taillefer. Following the ancient Cornish tradition, the family adopted the name of their place of residence, Borlas, as their surname. Originally Borlase was a manor, but the name now exists as three farms: Borlase-Vath, Borlase Burgess and Borlase farm near Rosenannon. A common saying in west Cornwall was ″Borlases were in Cornwall before the birth of Christ″.

People with the surname

Charles Borlase Charles Bonython Borlase (1820 – 15 May 1875) was Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand in 1874. He had been a member of the first Wellington Town Board in 1863, and a Councillor to 1874. He held the position of Provincial Solicitor from 1857 unti ...

(1820–1875), New Zealand politician, Mayor of Wellington * Darryl Borlase (born 1958), Australian footballer * Deirdre Borlase (1925–2018), English painter and printmaker *

Edmund Borlase Edmund Borlase (1620–1682) was an Anglo-Irish historian and physician. Life He was son of Sir John Borlase, who received the appointment of master-general of the ordnance, Ireland, in 1634, and held office as lord justice there from 1640 ...

(1620–1682), Irish Protestant historian *

George Borlase George Borlase (1743 – 7 November 1809) was an English churchman, Registrary and Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Life and career George Borlase was born 1743 in Cornwall. He was the sixth son of Walter ...

(1743–1809), Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge *

Henry Borlase Henry Borlase (ca. 1590 – ca. 1624) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1624. Borlase was the son of William Borlase of Marlow and Bockmore Buckinghamshire. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, on ...

(), English politician and Member of Parliament *

Isobel Borlase Isobel Borlase (born 12 September 2004) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Melbourne Tigers of the NBL1 South. She is also contracted with the Bendigo Spirit of the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). She debuted for ...

(born 2004), Australian basketball player * James Borlase (born 2002), Australian footballer *

Jenny Borlase Jenny Borlase , also known as Jenny Kennett, is a former Australia netball international. Between 1989 and 1999 she made 70 senior appearances for Australia. She was a member of the Australia teams that won gold medals at the 1991, 1995 and 19 ...

(born 1968), Australian netball player * John Borlase (disambiguation) *

Nancy Borlase Nancy Wilmot Borlase (24 March 1914 – 11 September 2006) was a New Zealand-born Australian artist, known for her landscape-based abstract paintings and portraits, and as an art critic and commentator. Her work is displayed in the National Ga ...

(1914–2006), New Zealand-born Australian painter and critic * Peter Borlase (born 1985), New Zealand rugby player and coach * William Borlase (disambiguation)

People with the given name

* Borlase Wyndham Childs (1876–1946), British Army major-general and Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (London) * Borlase Warren (1677–1747), English Member of Parliament *

Borlase Richmond Webb Borlase Richmond Webb (c. 1696–1738), of Biddesden House, Wiltshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1722 to 1734. Webb was the second son of John Richmond Webb of Bidd ...

(1738), British landowner and Tory politician

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