PENDER, Daniel. b. 1833; sub-lieut. R.M. 24 Dec. 1853, staff commander 1 Jany. 1869, retired 3 Feb. 1879; served in the Britannia during Russian war 1854; was on the Pacific station in various ships to 1869; a naval assistant in hydrographic department of the admiralty, subsequently chief naval assistant, and then assistant hydrographer to death; staff captain 3 Feb. 1879, retired captain 25 June 1884; F.R.G.S. d. 20 Oxford gardens, London 12 March 1891.
PENDLEBURY, Sir Ralph (son of Thomas Pendlebury of Stockport, bleacher). b. Bolton Lancs. 1790; a cotton manufacturer at Stockport; alderman of Stockport, mayor 1838–9; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his services in suppression of chartist disturbances of 1839. d. Mersey bank house, Heaton Mersey, near Manchester 1861.
PENDLETON, Frederick Henry Snow. b. 13 Sept. 1818; educ. univ. of Ghent and St. Aidan’s coll. Birkenhead; C. of St. Martin’s, Guernsey Dec. 1849 to June 1851; senior C. of St. Helier, Jersey Aug. 1851 to July 1853; consular chaplain at Monte Video 6 May 1854 to 31 Dec. 1858; obtained a church for about 250 natives of the Vaudois at Rosario Oriental 1858; granted gold medals by French and Italian governments for his services during epidemic of yellow fever 1857; British chaplain at Florence 1863 to 31 Dec. 1868; C. of St. Bartholomew’s ch. Sydenham, Kent 1876–9; C. of Ampthill, Beds. 1879–81; R. of St. Sampson’s, Guernsey 1882 to death; author of Lettres Pastorales 1851. d. St. Sampson’s rectory, Guernsey 13 Sept. 1888. Times 19 Sept. 1888 p. 4.
PENFOLD, Charles. b. 1799; a surveyor Croham, Croydon; author of Rating of railways, Ashford 1844; The principle and law of rating to the relief of the poor, railway, gas, water, etc. 1847, 8 ed. 1893; The Union assessment committee act 1863; A practical treatise on the best method of repairing roads, printed in Husbandry, vol. iii, pp. 1–27 (Library of useful knowledge 1840). d. Twickenham 23 May 1864.
PENGELLY, William (son of Richard Pengelly captain of a coasting vessel 1788–1861). b. Castle st. East Looe, Cornwall 12 Jany. 1812; opened a Pestalozzian school at Torquay about 1836; helped to found the Mechanics’ Institute 1837; a founder of the Torquay Natural history society 1844, honorary secretary 1851–90; a founder of the Devonshire association for the advancement of literature, science, and art 1862, president 1867–8; taught mathematics and geology at Torquay and lectured in various parts of the kingdom, made a fine collection of fossils which was purchased by Miss Burdett-Coutts and given to museum of the univ. of Oxford; examined the plant-bearing deposits at Bovey-Tracey, at Brixham cave, and at Kent’s hole, Torquay 1860–80; F.G.S. 1860, Lyell medallist 1886; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; president of geological section of British Association meeting 1877, and of the anthropological department 1883; presented with a testimonial of about £600, 1874; presented with his portrait in oils by A. S. Cope 1882 for his services as secretary of the Torquay Natural history society, the portrait is now in the society’s museum; author of The march of the red lions, by M. Y. 1867; Miscellaneous verses relating to Devonshire, four parts 1876–7; Kent’s cavern, its testimony to the antiquity of man 1876; Antiquity of the cave men 1877; his name is attached to upwards of 200 papers in scientific and antiquarian periodicals. d. Lamorna, Torquay 16 March 1894. bur. Torquay cemet. a memorial hall built by subscription has been added to Torquay natural history society. Quarterly journal of Geol. soc. May 1895 pp. liii–lvii; Geol. Mag. (1894) 192, 238–9; Natural science May 1894; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874–82) 446–50, 1307–8.
PENGILLY, Richard. b. Penzance, Cornwall 14 Sept. 1782; a Wesleyan methodist, joined the Baptists and was baptised in the Jordan chapel, Penzance 1802; educ. Bristol coll. 1803–7; minister at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1807–45; established the first nonconformist Sunday school in Newcastle; author of The new testament on its own ordnance, a collection of scriptures on baptism 1809; The christian’s best guide to baptism 1810, 9 ed. 1836; An affectionate address to the inhabitants of Newcastle and Gateshead on the cholera 1832. d. Newcastle 22 March 1865. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful baptist men (1884) 224–5.
PENLEAZE, John Story. b. 1786; British consul at Barcelona 17 Feb. 1841 to 1855; M.P. Southampton 6 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832 and 2 April 1833 to 29 Dec. 1834; resided Rossington, Hants. d. Hereford 12 April 1855.
PENLEY, Aaron Edwin. b. 1807; exhibited 18 portraits and landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1835–70; member of the New water-colour society 1838, resigned 1856, reinstated 1859; water-colour painter in ordinary to Wm. IV and queen Adelaide; assistant professor of drawing at Addiscombe college 1850, professor 1855 to its dissolution June 1861; master for landscape drawing at Woolwich royal military academy to death; author of The elements of perspective 1851; The English school of painting in water colours, in theory and practice 1861; Sketching from nature in water colours 1869; A system of water-colour painting 1850, 27 ed. 1869. d. 5 Eliot hill, Lewisham hill, Kent 15 Jany. 1870. H. M. Vibart’s Addiscombe (1894) 210–2 portrait.
Note.—His brother Wm. Henry Saulez Penley was a miniature painter and teacher of painting, he became paralysed and d. 1866.
PENLEY, Belville (one of six children of Samuel Penley, actor, Drury Lane, d. Paris April 1832). b. 1809; manager of Drury Lane, of the Lyceum, and of the Theatre royal, Newcastle; with Mr. Anderson co-lessee of Cheltenham theatre; general superintendent of the baths and pump rooms Bath; lessee of the Kingston baths at Bath for a time; his sister Rosina Penley, an actress at the Bath theatre, d. Budleigh Salterton, Devon 1879 aged 82; he d. 6 Chilton road, Bath 20 March 1893. B. S. Penley’s Bath stage (1892) 118.