Modern English biography

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