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 The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

on 18 November 1824, and died unmarried at

Richmond, Surrey Richmond is a town in south-west London,The London Government Act 1963 (c.33) (as amended) categorises the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames as an Outer London borough. Although it is on both sides of the River Thames, the Boundary Commis ...

, 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 Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey (7 April 1781 – 25 November 1841) was an English sculptor. He became the leading portrait sculptor in Regency era Britain, producing busts and statues of many notable figures of the time. Chantrey's most notable w ...

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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Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Penn, Richard 1784 births 1863 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society British chess writers