Category: Ide

My name is Robin Trewartha and I work as a freelance chartered psychologist around the South-east of England and East Anglia. This Web Site is a personal resource for family and any other Trewarthas around on the ’Net who may be wondering which of us pinched this dot.com name.

Although my name labels my Cornish roots, I was born in Devon in 1947. For 18 years I lived in a small village called Ide, close to the City of Exeter, but far enough away for it to be a separate community.

I was the youngest of three, with an older brother, Mark, and a sister, Angela. My father, who died in 1981, was brought up in Newton Abbot, in Devon. My parents met in Chapel Porth, near St Agnes, as my mother, Mary Colman, lived there with her parents, Thomas and Ada Colman, close to her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Beck née Bennett from Yorkshire.

My father is connected to Chapel Porth through his mother’s family – the Lawrences. My great great grandfather, Mark Lawrence, was Captain of the Wheal Lawrence mine not far from Wheal Coates. Our Trewarthas all have Truro-based connections as well with my paternal grandfather being a local trader.

Wheal Coates: home of the ‘Norkins’, (in  memory of my mother, Mary Clark (1920 – 2012).

At the age of 11 I attended Exeter School, in Heavitree, between 1958–1965 and completed undergraduate and graduate studies at Swansea University to become a probation officer (PO). I was married shortly before starting in the probation service. Our two children, Alan (1969) and Jane (1972) arrived during the time I was working as a PO. This continued for  for ten years in the north of England and, in 1979, I transferred to the NSPCC to work as a child protection officer. Four years later I moved to Dundee University to teach on their Graduate Social Work programme. When that contract finished, I remained in Scotland working on a freelance basis in social work and adult education until 1996.

I married Christina (Mason),  now my second wife, from our home in Longforgan, By-Dundee in August 1993

I lived and worked in London from 1996 to 2012 having retrained and qualified as a counselling supervisor and chartered psychologist, that is C Psychol with the British Psychological Society (BPS) as well as a Registered Counselling Psychologist with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC)..

Since 2012, I have been semi-retired working from my home in and around Attleborough until finally settling in Watton in 2017.