Drury Lane, _d._ Paris April 1832). _b._ 1809; manager of Drury
Lane, of the Lyceum, and of the Theatre royal, Newcastle;
with Mr. Anderson co-lessee of Cheltenham theatre; general
superintendent of the baths and pump rooms Bath; lessee of the
Kingston baths at Bath for a time; his sister Rosina Penley,
an actress at the Bath theatre, _d._ Budleigh Salterton, Devon
1879 aged 82; he _d._ 6 Chilton road, Bath 20 March 1893. _B. S.
Penley’s Bath stage_ (1892) 118.
PENN, ALFRED. _b._ Lewisham, Kent 6 Jany. 1855; a successful
slow left round-armed bowler; played for county of Kent from
1875; resided at the cedars, Belmont Hill, Lee, Kent. _d._ 18
Oct. 1889.
PENN, JOHN (son of John Penn, engineer 1770–1843). _b._
Greenwich 1805; apprenticed to his father, afterwards his
partner; constructed the steam gun invented by Jacob Perkins
1826, which was erected and put in operation in Paris, and then
exhibited Adelaide gallery London 1832 until gallery closed;
fitted the admiralty yacht Black Eagle with Aaron Manby’s
oscillating engines 1844; the firm of John Penn and Sons made
engines for 735 ships, including many men-of-war, up to 1878;
patented a method of lining the sea-bearings of screw-propellors
with lignum vitæ 1854; A.I.C.E. 1826, M I.C.E. 1845, member of
council 1853–6; president of Institution of mechanical engineers
1858–9 and 1867–8; F.R.S. 9 June 1859; retired from business
1875. _d._ The Cedars, Lee, Kent 23 Sept. 1878. _bur._ St.
Margaret’s ch. Lee 29 Sept., personalty sworn under £1,000,000,
26 Oct. 1878. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix_ 298–308
(1880); _I.L.N. lxxiii_ 325–6 (1878) _portrait_.
PENN, JOHN (son of farrier major Penn). _b._ in 14 regt. of
dragoons; in the service of lady John Bethell; private in 3
light dragoons to 1853; served in Afghanistan campaign 1842,
Cabul medal; in Sutlej campaign, wounded at Modkee 18 Dec.
1845, lay on the field all night, despite his wounds present
at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; with the army at Lahore, in action
of Chillianwallah 13 Jany. 1849, at Goojerat 21 Feb. 1849;
volunteered into 17 lancers June 1854, at the Alma and at
Balaklava 1854, medal, in gallant style cut down a Russian
officer; in battle of Inkerman, received a clasp, invalided home
July 1855. _E. H. Nolan’s War against Russia i_ 552–3 (1857)
_portrait_.
PENN, LEWIS WILLIAM. _b._ 1829; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 Dec. 1847;
lieut. col. 1 April 1872 to death; brevet colonel 23 Jany. 1875;
aide-de-camp to the queen 23 Jany. 1875 to death; C.B. 14 Aug.
1868. _d._ Kirkee, near Poona 14 Dec. 1877.
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
1855. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 21 April 1863, portrait by E. W.
Eddis engraved by M. Ganci 1884.
PENNA, CATHERINE (dau. of the succeeding). Pupil of sir George
Smart; concert vocalist, a soprano. _d._ 25 Victoria road,
Kilburn, London 15 June 1894.
PENNA, CATHERINE LOUISA (niece and goddaughter of Catherine
Stephens, countess of Essex, who _d._ 1882). Soprano of the duet
singers called the “Misses Smith” who toured chiefly in Scotland
and Ireland; _m._ Frederic Penna, who was living in 1879; mother
of William Penna, known as W. W. Whitlock. _d._ 44 Westbourne
park road, Bayswater, London 27 Dec. 1879.
PENNEFATHER, _Catherine_ (eld. dau. of James Wm. King,
rear-admiral, _d._ 1848, 7 child of second earl of Kingston).
_b._ about 1825; _m._ 16 Sept 1847 rev. Wm. Pennefather 1816–73;
greatly aided her husband in his evangelical work at Mellifont,
Walton and Barnet; carried on religious work at the conference
hall, Mildmay park, Islington 1873 to death; author of Follow
thou me, discipleship 1881; Follow thou me, service 1881; Songs
of the pilgrim land 1886; That nothing be lost 1892; author with
others of The homeward journey 1888, a selection of poems. _d._
68 Mildmay park, Islington, London 12 Jany. 1893. _Christian
portrait gallery_ (1889) 287; _The Record 13 Jany. 1893 p._ 39;
_Times 17 Jany. 1893 p._ 10.
PENNEFATHER, EDWARD (1 son of Edward Pennefather 1774–1847, lord
chief justice of queen’s bench, Ireland). _b._ 1809; called to
the Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 26 May 1858; bencher of King’s inns,
Dublin 1863 to death. _d._ 6 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 22 Feb.
1895. _Law Times 2 March 1895 p._ 432.
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
1872. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 15 May. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes of
the Crimea_ (1855) 97–100.
PENNEFATHER, RICHARD (eld. son of major Wm. Pennefather of 13
light dragoon, M.P. Cashel). _b._ Knockeven, Tipperary 1773;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1794, and King’s inns, Dublin;
called to Irish bar 1795; practised in court of chancery and
on the Munster circuit; king’s counsel; chief baron of Irish
court of exchequer 14 Feb. 1821, resigned Feb. 1859. _d._ at his
residence, near Clonmel 7 Aug. 1859. _J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish
bar_ (1879) 288–92; _Dublin univ. mag. liv_ 532–5 (1859).
PENNEFATHER, WILLIAM (youngest son of preceding). _b._ Merrion
sq. Dublin 5 Feb. 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin Feb. 1832
to 1840, B.A. 1840; C. of Ballymacugh, Kilmore 1841–4; V. of
Mellifont, near Drogheda 1844–8; V. of Holy Trinity, Walton,
near Aylesbury 1848–52; V. of Ch. Ch. Barnet, Herts. 1852–64;
held conferences on missionary enterprise at Barnet and then at
Mildmay 1855 to death; V. of St. Jude’s, Mildmay park, Islington
1864 to death; known as a mission preacher all over England;
author of The church of the first-born 1865; The bridegroom
king 1875; Hymns, original and selected 1875, of these he wrote
25; Original hymns and thoughts in verse 1875, a collection
of 71 pieces. _d._ Melford lodge, Muswell hill, Middlesex 30
April 1873. _bur._ Ridge, near Barnet, next to his friend Capt.
Trotter 6 May. _R. Braithwaite’s Life of W. Pennefather_ (1878)
_portrait_; _Julian’s Dict. of hymnology_ (1892) 888–9; _Woman’s
work ii_ 161–70 (1873).
PENNELL, EDMUND BURKE. _b._ 1840; clerk in office of sec. of
state for the colonies April 1859, third class clerk April
1863; private sec. to W. E. Forster, under sec. to 6 July 1866,
to sir C. Adderley to 1 Oct. 1866, and to lord Blachford from
1 Oct. 1866; assist. clerk 20 May 1867, first class clerk 30
Sept. 1872; sent to Paris on a special mission 1874; principal
clerk 1 May 1879; British comr. on Anglo-French commission on
Newfoundland fisheries, in Paris 1884–5, in Newfoundland 1884–5,
again in Paris 1886; C.M.G. 1 Feb. 1886. _d._ at his brother’s
residence, The cottage, East Moulsey, Surrey 16 March 1895.
_bur._ West Moulsey.
PENNELL, FOLLETT WALROND (6 son of Wm. Pennell, consul at Rio
de Janeiro). _b._ 4 Feb. 1804; entered navy Feb. 1818; captain
14 July 1828; R.A. on h.p. 2 May 1855; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept.
1865. _d._ Ravenside, near Carlisle 30 July 1876.
PENNETHORNE, SIR JAMES (son of Thomas Pennethorne of Worcester).
_b._ Worcester 4 June 1801; pupil of John Nash and Augustus
Pugin 1820–4; studied in France and Italy 1824–6; elected a
member of the academy of St. Luke; principal assistant of
John Nash 1826; directed the West Strand improvement 1829,
and the King Wm. st. opening 1831; employed by the comrs. of
the woods and forests to prepare plans for improvements in
London 1832; four streets New Oxford st. opened 1847, Endell
st. 1846, Cranbourne st. 1843, and Commercial st. 1870, were
made by him at a cost of one million pounds, also Garrick st.
1864, Southwark st. 1864, and Old st. 1855; built Crockford’s
bazaar in St. James’s st. 1832, and Christ church in Albany st.
1836; his design for rebuilding the Royal exchange was one of
the five selected in the competition 1838; joint surveyor of
houses in London in the land revenue department June 1840; sole
surveyor and architect of the office of woods 1843–70; a comr.
to inquire into construction of work-houses in Ireland 1843;
designed and laid out Victoria park at cost of £115,000, 1842
etc., and Battersea park 1846–58; cleared away the houses from
the walls of Windsor Castle 1851–3; architect of the Museum
of economic geology in Jermyn st. opened in 1851; removed the
colonnade of the Quadrant, Regent st. and designed the balcony
1848; completed the west wing of Somerset House 1852–6, for
which he received a gold medal from the R.I.B.A. 18 May 1857;
built the ball-room at Buckingham palace, completed 1856, the
duchy of Cornwall office, and district post office 1852, the
Record office 1856–70, the stables at Marlborough house 1863,
the Patent office library, opened 1855, and the new stationery
office 1847; F.R.I.B.A. 1840, royal gold medallist 1865;
designed the University of London in Burlington Gardens 1866–8;
knighted at Windsor castle 29 June 1870. _d._ Worcester park
house, Wimbledon, Surrey 1 Sept. 1871. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
_Transactions of the R.I.B.A._ (1871–2) 53–69; _The Builder_
(1866) 877–98.
PENNETHORNE, JOHN (brother of preceding). _b._ Worcester 4
Jany. 1808; pupil of John Nash in London; studied in France,
Italy, Greece, and Egypt 1830–5; made an elaborate study of the
Parthenon at Athens 1832, 1834 and 1837; author of The elements
and arithmetical principles of the Greek architects and artists,
recovered by study of the remaining works of architecture
designed and erected in the age of Pericles 1844; and with
J. Robinson The geometry and optics of ancient architecture,
illustrated by examples from Thebes, Athens, and Rome 1878;
contributed to the Transactions of the R.I.B.A. a paper on
The connection between ancient art and the ancient geometry
as illustrated by works of the age of Pericles Feb. 1879 pp.
105–36. _d._ Hamstead, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 20 Jany. 1888.
_Dictionary of architecture_, _vol. vi p._ 18 (1881).
PENNEY, JOHN. Cornet 1 Bombay light cavalry 25 April 1824,
lieut. col. 7 Dec. 1850 to 1852, and 24 April 1854 to death;
lieut. col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 1852 to 24 April 1854;
changed his name from Penny to Penney 1845. _d._ of heat
apoplexy in the retreat from Nasírábád 28 May 1857.
PENNEY, WILLIAM, lord Kinloch (eld. son of Wm. Penney,
merchant). _b._ Glasgow 1801; educ. Glasgow univ. where he took
honours; advocate 1824, had a large practice; judge of court of
session 7 May 1858, took courtesy title of lord Kinloch; judge
of the first division court Oct. 1868 to death; author of The
circle of Christian doctrine 1861, 3 ed. 1865; Time’s treasure
or devout thoughts for every day of the year, expressed in verse
1863, 5 ed. 1865; Studies for Sunday evening 1866; Faith’s
jewels presented in verse 1869; Thoughts of Christ for every day
in the year 1871; Readings in holy writ 1871; Hymns to Christ
1872. _d._ Hartrigge house, near Jedburgh 31 Oct. 1872. _Journal
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
1852. _d._ 44 Windsor terrace, Glasgow 22 Nov. 1869. _Glasgow
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
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
1868. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 453 (1878).
PENROSE, JOHN (eld. son of John Penrose 1754–1829, rector of
Fledborough, Notts.). _b._ Cardinham, near Bodmin 15 Dec. 1778;
educ. Tiverton school 1794–5; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 3
July 1795; migrated to C.C. coll. 26 Nov. 1795; B.A. 1799, M.A.
1802; Bampton lecturer 1808; V. of Langton-by-Wragby, Lincs.
Dec. 1802 to death; V. of Poundstock, Cornwall 1803–9; V. of
Bracebridge, Lincs. 1809–38; P.C. of North Hykeham, Lincs.
Nov. 1837 to death; author of An attempt to prove the truth of
christianity, Bampton lecture 1808; An inquiry into the nature
and discipline of human motives 1820; Of the use of miracles in
proving the truth of a revelation 1824; Familiar introduction to
the Christian religion. By a Senior 1831; Explanatory lectures
on the gospel of St. Matthew 1832; On the moral principle of the
atonement 1843, 2 ed. 1846; Lives of vice-admiral sir Charles
Vinicombe Penrose and captain James Trevenen. By their nephew
1850; Fifty-four sermons for Sunday reading in families 1851,
2 ed. 1859; _m._ 1814 Elizabeth, 2 dau. of Edmund Cartwright,
rector of Goadby-Marwood, Leics., she was _b._ 3 Aug. 1780,
wrote many school histories under pseudonym of Mrs. Markham,
and _d._ Lincoln 24 Jany. 1837; he _d._ Langton 9 Aug. 1859.
_J. Penrose’s Life of rev. J. Penrose of Fledborough_ (1880);
_Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 454–8 (1874–8); _Boase’s
Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 712, 1084.
PENSON, JAMES (son of a dockyard artizan). _b._ Devonport 1814;
a teacher of drawing; studied in Sass’ academy, Bloomsbury,
London; a water colour painter; exhibited at Royal academy,
London 1850. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 104.
PENTLAND, JOSEPH BARCLAY. _b._ Ireland 1797; educ. Armagh and
univ. of Paris; secretary to British consulate in Peru 1827;
consul-general in republic of Bolivia 1 Aug. 1836 until 1839;
surveyed a large part of the Bolivian Andes 1826–7, and was
the first to measure height of the mountains; travelled in the
southern province of ancient Peru 1838; spent his winters in
Rome from 1845, acted as guide to the prince of Wales twice;
edited for John Murray A handbook of Rome and its environs,
9 ed. 1860, 10 ed. 1871, and 11 ed. 1872; A handbook for
travellers in Southern Italy, 6 ed. 1868; and A handbook for
travellers in Northern Italy, 11 ed. 1869. _d._ 3 Motcomb st.,
London 12 July 1873. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _Athenæum 6 Sept.
1873 p._ 309.
PEPLOE, ANNIE (2 dau. of John Molyneux of Gavel Hill, Salop,
captain R.N.) _b._ Ludlow 21 Feb. 1805; _m._ 3 Jany. 1828 John
Birch Webb, vicar of Weobly, Herefordshire, who took name of
Peploe 1866, he was _b._ Court lodge, Kent 9 Sept. 1801 and _d._
Garnstone, Herefordshire 26 Jany. 1869; author of Naomi, or the
last days of Jerusalem 1841, 20 ed. 1895; A tale of the Vaudois
1842, 2 ed. 1854; Julamerk, a tale of the Nestorians, 3 vols.
1849, 3 ed. 1854; The martyrs of Carthage, 2 vols. 1850, 2 ed.
1857; Alypius of Tagaste 1865, 2 ed. 1891; Benaiah, a tale of
the captivity 1865; Oliver Wyndham 1867; Pomponia, or the gospel
in Cæsar’s household 1867; I know, or the verities of the Bible
1879; her name is attached to upwards of 25 works 1841–79. _d._
25 Onslow gardens, London, the residence of her son rev. Hanmer
Wm. Webb Peploe 13 Jany. 1880. _Reg. and mag. of biog. March
1869 p._ 253.
PEPLOE, DANIEL PEPLOE (eld. son of preceding). _b._ 15 Feb.
1829; educ. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1851; cornet 4
royal Irish dragoon guards 14 May 1852, captain 11 Dec. 1857,
sold out 3 July 1860; assumed name of Peploe 16 July 1866; M.P.
Herefordshire 1874–80; contested Herefordshire 6 April 1880.
_d._ 4 Nov. 1887.