Alfred Penn (6 January 1855 – 18 October 1889), known as Dick Penn, was an English amateur
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er who played for
Kent County Cricket Club
Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ke ...
from 1875 to 1884.
[Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 437–438.]
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
Penn was born at The Cedars in
Lee
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Name
Given name
* Lee (given name), a given name in English
Surname
* Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee:
** Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname
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in what is now south-east London but was historically part of
Kent. He was the son of
John Penn, a manufacturer of marine engines with works in
Deptford and
Greenwich.
[Ideal Homes: a History of South East London Suburbs]
Retrieved 2018-11-11. His brothers
Frank and
William were both cricketers whilst another brother,
John, was the
Member of Parliament for
Lewisham from 1891 to 1903.
[Ambrose D (2003]
Brief profile of Alfred Penn
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
Penn made his
first-class cricket debut for Kent in July 1875, playing against
Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
at
Hove.
[Dick Penn]
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-11-11. He went on to play a total of 48 first-class matches, 41 of which were for Kent.
Penn died at Lee in October 1889 at the age of 34.
CricInfo
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. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
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1855 births
1889 deaths
English cricketers
Kent cricketers
North v South cricketers
Orleans Club cricketers
Gentlemen of England cricketers
Gentlemen of Kent cricketers