Modern English biography

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. PENNEFATHER, Sir John Lysaght (3 son of rev. John Pennefather of New Park, co. Tipperary). _b._ 1800; cornet 7 dragoon guards 14 Jany. 1818, lieut. 1823–5; captain 22 foot 8 April 1826, lieut. col. 18 Oct. 1839; lieut. col. 28 foot 2 Dec. 1847, placed on h.p. 21 July 1848; commanded the infantry brigade at battle of Meanee, India 17 Feb. 1843 when he was shot through the body; A.D.C. to the queen 19 June 1846 to 20 June 1854; assistant Q.M.G. in the Cork district 1849–54; commanded the first brigade of second division in the army sent to Russia 1854; at the battle of the Alma; commanded the second division at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854 when with less than 3,000 men he defeated 35,000 Russians who lost nearly 12,000 men; commanded the second division again Nov. 1854 to July 1855; colonel of 46 foot 19 Nov. 1854 to 13 Feb. 1860; commanded the troops at Malta 1855–60, in the northern district 1860, and at Aldershot 1860–5; col. of 22 foot 13 Feb. 1860 to death; L.G. 12 Nov. 1860, general 9 May 1868; governor of Chelsea hospital 27 Aug. 1870 to death; C.B. 4 July 1843, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 May 1867; grand officer of Legion of Honour; commander of Sardinian order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare; bailiff ad honores of order of St. John of Jerusalem 16 Feb 1858. _d._ Chelsea hospital 9 May