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