Richard Penn (1784–1863) was an English official of the Colonial Office and writer, the younger son of Richard Penn (1736–1811) the Member of Parliament. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 18 November 1824, and died unmarried at Richmond, Surrey, on 21 April 1863.[1]
Richard Penn | |
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 Penn, 1834 lithograph | |
| Born | 1784 |
| Died | 21 April 1863 (aged 78–79) |
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Works edit
Penn wrote:[1]
- On a New Mode of Secret Writing, 1829, on a cipher.
- Maxims and Hints for an Angler, and Miseries of Fishing, illustrated by Sir Francis Chantrey London, 1833, with Maxims and Hints for a Chess Player, with portrait-caricatures by Chantrey of the author and himself. An enlarged edition was published in 1839, and another, containing Maxims and Hints on Shooting, appeared in 1855.
Notes edit
- ^ a b Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Penn, Richard". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.