Modern English biography

of jurisprudence xvi_, 650, 664 (1872); _Law mag. and law review i_ 1075–7 (1872); _I.L.N. lxi_ 452 (1872) _portrait_. PENNINGTON, JAMES (son of Wm. Pennington, bookseller). _b._ Kendal, Westmoreland 23 Feb. 1777; educ. Kendal gr. sch.; pupil of John Dalton, chemist in Manchester; in business in London; appointed to investigate the accounts of the East India company 1831, appointment cancelled 1832; member of Political economy club 1828; framed the measures adopted by the treasury for regulating the currency of the West Indies 1833; a leading authority on currency and finance, was frequently consulted by the government; author of A letter to Kirkman Finlay, esq., on the importation of foreign corn and the value of the precious metals in different countries 1840; The currency of the British colonies 1848. _d._ 2 Nelson terrace, Clapham Common, Surrey 23 March 1862. _A. R. Pennington’s Recollections of persons and events_ (1895) 109–11. 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