Richard Penn (FRS)

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Name Richard Penn Great-grandparents William Penn Grandparents Richard Penn, Sr.		Parents Richard Penn Role Writer

Books The Dark Colony, Maxims and Hints on Anglin, Freedom at Feronia, Maxims and Hints for an An, Dark Grapes

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.

Works

Penn wrote:

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.

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