of jurisprudence xvi_, 650, 664 (1872); _Law mag. and law review
i_ 1075–7 (1872); _I.L.N. lxi_ 452 (1872) _portrait_.
PENNINGTON, JAMES (son of Wm. Pennington, bookseller). _b._
Kendal, Westmoreland 23 Feb. 1777; educ. Kendal gr. sch.; pupil
of John Dalton, chemist in Manchester; in business in London;
appointed to investigate the accounts of the East India company
1831, appointment cancelled 1832; member of Political economy
club 1828; framed the measures adopted by the treasury for
regulating the currency of the West Indies 1833; a leading
authority on currency and finance, was frequently consulted by
the government; author of A letter to Kirkman Finlay, esq., on
the importation of foreign corn and the value of the precious
metals in different countries 1840; The currency of the British
colonies 1848. _d._ 2 Nelson terrace, Clapham Common, Surrey 23
March 1862. _A. R. Pennington’s Recollections of persons and
events_ (1895) 109–11.
PENNY, CHARLES (3 son of Elias Penny of Sherborne). _b._ 1810;
educ. Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, B. and D.D. 1850;
C. of Bicknoller, Somerset 1832–4; C. of Sutton Courtney, Berks.
1834–6; C. of Dorchester 1836–7; C. of West Ilsley, Berks.
1837–8; head master of Crewkerne gr. sch. 1838 to death; R. of
Chaffcombe, Somerset 1848 to death; author of A sermon preached
before the university of Oxford 1851. _d._ Greenham house,
Beaminster, Dorset 15 Dec. 1875.
PENNY, FREDERICK (3 son of Charles Penny, wholesale stationer,
Cheapside, London). _b._ London 10 April 1816; studied under
Henry Hennel, chemical operator to the soc. of apothecaries
1830–6; professor of chemistry Anderson’s institution, Glasgow
1839 to death, where he had a large number of pupils; retained
by the crown in criminal cases; doctor of philosophy of Giessen
univ.; F.R.S. Edinb.; wrote On the conversion of chlorates
and nitrates into chlorides and of chlorides into nitrates,
_Philos. Trans. 1839 pp._ 13–33; author of On the composition
and phosphorescence of plate-sulphate of potash 1855; with J.
Adams On the detection of aconite, in reference to trial of E.
W. Pritchard 1865; with W. Wallace Notes on chloride of arsenic