Modern English biography

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