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