Modern English biography

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