Major John Penrice (Great Yarmouth, 5 December 1818 – 1892) was a British soldier, photographer, and the author of an English glossary of the Quran (1873) based on the edition of Gustav Leberecht Flügel (1834).
His father John Penrice Sr. (1787-1844) was a captain in the King's 15th Hussars.[1][2][3] He had young brothers and sisters including, Thomas Penrice of Kilvrough (b.1820), Captain Herbert Newton Penrice of the Royal Engineers whose tunnelling machine was used during the Crimean War.[4] and Rev. Charles Berners Penrice.
A captain, then major (1855) in the Norfolk Artillery Militia, Penrice exhibited calotypes and waxed-paper architectural and landscape views in the 1854 and 1855 Photographic Society exhibitions in London and in the 1855 London Photographic Institution exhibition. His work after that was in collodion.[5] It is said, he had "a complex character, Penrice eventually became a justice of the peace in Norfolk. In 1844, on the death of his father, he sent twenty-five major paintings from Wilton House, the family home near Yarmouth in Norfolk, to Messrs Christie and Manson. Some of these are in the National Gallery, London, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In 1861 he published The Valley of the Nile, a series of one hundred stereoscopic views taken in Egypt and Nubia. Although Penrice’s photographs are now virtually unknown, his Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran first published in 1873 is a substantial piece of scholarship".[6] Penrice served in Egypt and Nubia with British troops, his Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran is supposed to be an authoritative work of its kind. In the past 150 years multiple editions of the lexicon have been published.[7][8]
References
edit- ^ Paul P. Davies History of Medicine in Great Yarmouth: Hospitals and Doctors 2003 - Page 93 "When John Penrice was a captain in the 15th Hussars, he was taken prisoner and confined for some time at Verdun
- ^ A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain - Volume 1 - Page 362 John Burke - 1834 "PENRICE, JOHN, esq. of Yarmouth, in the county of Norfolk, late Captain 15th or King's Hussars, b. 4 June 1787, m. in June, 1816, Maria-Catharine, eldest daughter of Herbert Newton Jarrett, esq. of Great Bromley Lodge, in Essex, by whom ..."
- ^ Burke 1871 p1076
- ^ Handbook of mining and tunnelling machinery - Page 152 Barbara Stack - 1982 "According to an article entitled 'Merseyside's first mole' (Mott, Hay and Anderson),17 Captain Penrice is reputed to have designed and built his machines so that they could be used to undermine the walls of Sebastopol during the Crimean War"
- ^ John Penrice, a Biographical Sketch
- ^ John Penrice, a Biographical Sketch
- ^ A Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran (1988) Ghazali.org
- ^ A Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran (1988) Amazon.com