PENN, Alfred. b. Lewisham, Kent 6 Jany. 1855; a successful slow left round-armed bowler; played for county of Kent from 1875; resided at the cedars, Belmont Hill, Lee, Kent. d. 18 Oct. 1889.
PENN, John (son of John Penn, engineer 1770–1843). b. Greenwich 1805; apprenticed to his father, afterwards his partner; constructed the steam gun invented by Jacob Perkins 1826, which was erected and put in operation in Paris, and then exhibited Adelaide gallery London 1832 until gallery closed; fitted the admiralty yacht Black Eagle with Aaron Manby’s oscillating engines 1844; the firm of John Penn and Sons made engines for 735 ships, including many men-of-war, up to 1878; patented a method of lining the sea-bearings of screw-propellors with lignum vitæ 1854; A.I.C.E. 1826, M I.C.E. 1845, member of council 1853–6; president of Institution of mechanical engineers 1858–9 and 1867–8; F.R.S. 9 June 1859; retired from business 1875. d. The Cedars, Lee, Kent 23 Sept. 1878. bur. St. Margaret’s ch. Lee 29 Sept., personalty sworn under £1,000,000, 26 Oct. 1878. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix 298–308 (1880); I.L.N. lxxiii 325–6 (1878) portrait.
PENN, John (son of farrier major Penn). b. in 14 regt. of dragoons; in the service of lady John Bethell; private in 3 light dragoons to 1853; served in Afghanistan campaign 1842, Cabul medal; in Sutlej campaign, wounded at Modkee 18 Dec. 1845, lay on the field all night, despite his wounds present at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; with the army at Lahore, in action of Chillianwallah 13 Jany. 1849, at Goojerat 21 Feb. 1849; volunteered into 17 lancers June 1854, at the Alma and at Balaklava 1854, medal, in gallant style cut down a Russian officer; in battle of Inkerman, received a clasp, invalided home July 1855. E. H. Nolan’s War against Russia i 552–3 (1857) portrait.
PENN, Lewis William. b. 1829; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 Dec. 1847; lieut. col. 1 April 1872 to death; brevet colonel 23 Jany. 1875; aide-de-camp to the queen 23 Jany. 1875 to death; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Kirkee, near Poona 14 Dec. 1877.
PENN, Richard (younger son of Richard Penn 1736–1811, M.P. Lancaster 1796–1802). b. 1784; served in the colonial office under lord Hobart, viscount Castlereagh, and earls Camden and Bathurst; arranged a cipher for use in despatches which is illustrated in his pamphlet On a new mode of secret writing 1829; F.R.S. 18 Nov. 1824; author of Maxims and hints for an angler and miseries of fishing, illustrated by sir Francis Chantry, to which is added Maxims and hints for a chess player, with portrait caricatures of Penn and Chantry 1833, enlarged ed. 1839, and another ed. containing Maxims and hints on shooting 1855. d. Richmond, Surrey 21 April 1863, portrait by E. W. Eddis engraved by M. Ganci 1884.
PENNA, Catherine (dau. of the succeeding). Pupil of sir George Smart; concert vocalist, a soprano. d. 25 Victoria road, Kilburn, London 15 June 1894.
PENNA, Catherine Louisa (niece and goddaughter of Catherine Stephens, countess of Essex, who d. 1882). Soprano of the duet singers called the “Misses Smith” who toured chiefly in Scotland and Ireland; m. Frederic Penna, who was living in 1879; mother of William Penna, known as W. W. Whitlock. d. 44 Westbourne park road, Bayswater, London 27 Dec. 1879.
PENNEFATHER, Catherine (eld. dau. of James Wm. King, rear-admiral, d. 1848, 7 child of second earl of Kingston). b. about 1825; m. 16 Sept 1847 rev. Wm. Pennefather 1816–73; greatly aided her husband in his evangelical work at Mellifont, Walton and Barnet; carried on religious work at the conference hall, Mildmay park, Islington 1873 to death; author of Follow thou me, discipleship 1881; Follow thou me, service 1881; Songs of the pilgrim land 1886; That nothing be lost 1892; author with others of The homeward journey 1888, a selection of poems. d. 68 Mildmay park, Islington, London 12 Jany. 1893. Christian portrait gallery (1889) 287; The Record 13 Jany. 1893 p. 39; Times 17 Jany. 1893 p. 10.
PENNEFATHER, Edward (1 son of Edward Pennefather 1774–1847, lord chief justice of queen’s bench, Ireland). b. 1809; called to the Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 26 May 1858; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1863 to death. d. 6 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 22 Feb. 1895. Law Times 2 March 1895 p. 432.
PENNEFATHER, John (2 son of Richard Pennefather 1773–1859). b. 1814 or 1815; entered Harrow school Feb. 1830, in the cricket eleven 1832–3; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 25 May 1833 B.A. 1837; rowed No. 6 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 17 June 1836 from Westminster to Putney; a student of Inner Temple 1835; barrister King’s Inns, Dublin 1838; crown prosecutor at Tipperary assizes to death; chairman of Killarney junction railway to death. d. 7 April 1855.