PENNY, Charles (3 son of Elias Penny of Sherborne). b. 1810; educ. Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, B. and D.D. 1850; C. of Bicknoller, Somerset 1832–4; C. of Sutton Courtney, Berks. 1834–6; C. of Dorchester 1836–7; C. of West Ilsley, Berks. 1837–8; head master of Crewkerne gr. sch. 1838 to death; R. of Chaffcombe, Somerset 1848 to death; author of A sermon preached before the university of Oxford 1851. d. Greenham house, Beaminster, Dorset 15 Dec. 1875.
PENNY, Frederick (3 son of Charles Penny, wholesale stationer, Cheapside, London). b. London 10 April 1816; studied under Henry Hennel, chemical operator to the soc. of apothecaries 1830–6; professor of chemistry Anderson’s institution, Glasgow 1839 to death, where he had a large number of pupils; retained by the crown in criminal cases; doctor of philosophy of Giessen univ.; F.R.S. Edinb.; wrote On the conversion of chlorates and nitrates into chlorides and of chlorides into nitrates, Philos. Trans. 1839 pp. 13–33; author of On the composition and phosphorescence of plate-sulphate of potash 1855; with J. Adams On the detection of aconite, in reference to trial of E. W. Pritchard 1865; with W. Wallace Notes on chloride of arsenic 1852. d. 44 Windsor terrace, Glasgow 22 Nov. 1869. Glasgow Medical Journal ii 258–70 (1870); Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. vii 25 (1872).
PENNY, John (3 son of Elias Penny of Sherborne). b. 16 Feb. 1803; educ. King’s school, Sherborne; proprietor and editor of the Sherborne Journal by purchase from Chiswick and co. 1 May 1828, retired 1858; head stamp distributor for Dorset, residing at Dorchester, about 1833, and at Leeds shortly afterwards, retired on a superannuation; author of Dorsetshire emancipated from Tory dominion 1832; Practical retrenchment the object of reform 1833; Stephen, king of England, or the Danish usurpation 1851, a drama produced at the Leeds theatre; resided Chetnole, Dorset. d. 27 Pulteney st. Bath 7 Feb. 1885. bur. in the catacombs at Exeter 12 Feb. Mayo’s Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis (1885) 33, 79; Sherborne Journal 12 Feb. 1885 p. 8, 16 Feb. p. 3.
PENNY, Nicholas (son of Robert Penny of Weymouth). b. Nov. 1790; ensign 14 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1830, lieut. 19 Dec. 1812; captain 69 Bengal N.I. 1829, lieut. col. 29 July 1848 to 1849; served at the siege of Bhurtpore 1825; brigade-major on the Muttra and Agra frontier 1826–8; assistant adjutant general of a division 9 July 1832; commanded the Nusseree battalion 2 June 1841 to 7 Oct. 1848; commanded the second infantry brigade in the first Sikh war 1846; lieut. col. of 2 European fusiliers 1849–51, of 40 Bengal N.I. 1851–2, of 61 Bengal N.I. 1852 to 16 Jany. 1855; A.D.C. to the queen 5 June 1849 to 20 June 1854; commanded the Jullunder field force 2 Feb. 1852, the Sirhind division 28 Aug. 1852, the Lind-Sangor district 22 Feb. 1853, and the Sialkot district 19 Jany. 1854; commanded the Cawnpore division May 1855; commanded the Meerut division 30 June 1857 to death, and the Delhi field force 30 Sept. 1857 to death; killed by the rebels at Kakràtá, near Bareilly 30 April 1858. Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny iv 73–6, 349–351 (1889).
PENNY, William Carpenter (eld. son of William Ponsford Penny, bookseller, Frome, d. 1856). b. Frome 2 May 1822; in his father’s business, Bath st. Frome; clerk to Whittaker and co. London; with his brother James Penny succeeded to the business in Frome 1856; established and edited the Frome Times 1859, ultimately purchased by Frome newspaper co. and became The Somerset Standard; published W. J. E. Bennett’s The old church porch 1854–62; a witness in the case of Sheppard v. Bennett. d. Church-slope, Frome 15 May 1887. bur. the parish cemetery 18 May. Bookseller June 1887 p. 546; The Somerset and Wilts. journal 21 May 1887 p. 5.
PENNYCUICK, James Farrell (eld. son of John Pennycuick, brigadier-general, killed near Chillianwalla 13 Jany. 1849). b. 10 Aug. 1829; educ. royal military academy 1844–7; 2 lieut. R.A. 2 May 1847, colonel 1 May 1880, placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 4 Jany. 1886; served in the Crimean war, the Indian mutiny 1857–8, and the expedition to China 1860; M.G. 8 Nov. 1880, L.G. 1 July 1885; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Bedford 6 July 1888. bur. Bedford cemet. 10 July.
PENON, Jules Francois Charles. b. France 1814; instructor in French at royal naval college, Greenwich 1874 to death; naturalised in England 17 Feb. 1876. d. 2 Dovercourt villas, Lee, Kent 13 May 1881.
PENRHYN, Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 1 Baron (3 son of colonel the hon. John Douglas 1786–1818, and brother of 17 earl of Morton 1789–1858). b. 20 June 1800; ensign grenadier guards 31 Aug. 1815, lieut. 13 May 1824, captain 18 April 1834, placed on h.p. 25 April 1834; col. in the army 9 Nov. 1846; captain Scots fusilier guards 10 Dec. 1847, sold out same day; one of a crew of 6 officers of the guards who for a bet of 600 guineas undertook to row in a wherry from Oxford to Westminster bridge within 16 hours 24 April 1824, the distance, 118 miles, was rowed in 15¾ hours; proprietor of the Penrhyn slate quarries, Wales; m. 6 Aug. 1833 Juliana, co-heiress of George Hay Dawkins-Pennant and took by R.L. name of Pennant 12 Jany. 1841, was given precedence as the son of an earl, by royal warrant 26 Aug. 1835; M.P. Carnarvonshire 1841–66; cr. baron Penrhyn of Llandegai, co. Carnarvon 3 Aug. 1866; lord lieutenant of Carnarvonshire 14 Sept. 1866; hon. col. Carnarvon militia 30 Aug. 1852 to death. d. Penrhyn castle, Llandegai 31 March 1886. Annual Register (1824) 59–60; Practical Mag. ii 161 (1873) portrait.
PENROSE, Charles Thomas (2 son of John Penrose 1778–1859, vicar of Bracebridge, Lincoln). b. Bracebridge 15 July 1816; educ. Rugby 1828–36; Bell scholar Trin. coll. Camb. 1836, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; rowed in the first and second races against the Leander eight oared boat 1837 and 1838; rowed No. 5 in the Cambridge boat against Oxford from Westminster to Putney 3 April 1839; head master of Grosvenor college, Bath 1843–5; head master of Sherborne gr. sch. 1845–55; C. of North Hykeham, Lincs. 1856; P.C. of North Hykeham 1859 to death; edited Select private orations of Demosthenes with notes 1843, 2 ed. 1853; author of Eight village sermons, Lincoln 1857. d. North Hykeham 5 May 1868. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 453 (1878).
PENROSE, John (eld. son of John Penrose 1754–1829, rector of Fledborough, Notts.). b. Cardinham, near Bodmin 15 Dec. 1778; educ. Tiverton school 1794–5; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 3 July 1795; migrated to C.C. coll. 26 Nov. 1795; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802; Bampton lecturer 1808; V. of Langton-by-Wragby, Lincs. Dec. 1802 to death; V. of Poundstock, Cornwall 1803–9; V. of Bracebridge, Lincs. 1809–38; P.C. of North Hykeham, Lincs. Nov. 1837 to death; author of An attempt to prove the truth of christianity, Bampton lecture 1808; An inquiry into the nature and discipline of human motives 1820; Of the use of miracles in proving the truth of a revelation 1824; Familiar introduction to the Christian religion. By a Senior 1831; Explanatory lectures on the gospel of St. Matthew 1832; On the moral principle of the atonement 1843, 2 ed. 1846; Lives of vice-admiral sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose and captain James Trevenen. By their nephew 1850; Fifty-four sermons for Sunday reading in families 1851, 2 ed. 1859; m. 1814 Elizabeth, 2 dau. of Edmund Cartwright, rector of Goadby-Marwood, Leics., she was b. 3 Aug. 1780, wrote many school histories under pseudonym of Mrs. Markham, and d. Lincoln 24 Jany. 1837; he d. Langton 9 Aug. 1859. J. Penrose’s Life of rev. J. Penrose of Fledborough (1880); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 454–8 (1874–8); Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 712, 1084.