Maidstone frigate, Commodore Chas. Bullen, was wounded at the capture of the Prince of Guinea slave-brig of 10 guns. He was made a Lieutenant 9 Dec. in the same year; and was afterwards, from 6 Oct. 18.32 until paid off in 1834, employed on the Lisbon station in the Asia 84, flag-ship of the present Sir Wm. Parker. He has not been since afloat.
PENNEFATHER. (Lieutenant, 1821. f-p., 23; h-p., 16.)
William Westby Pennefather is second son of the late Rev. John Pennefather, Rector of St. John parish, in the diocese of Cashel, co. Tipperary, by Elizabeth, daughter of Major Percival; and grandson of Kingsmill Pennefather, Esq., M.P. in 1753, 1761, and 1771 for Cashel. One of his brothers, Kingsmill, was a Major in the Limerick Militia; another, John Lysaght, a Major in the 22nd Regt.; and a third, Robt. Percival, a Lieutenant and Adjutant in the 3rd Regt. of Native Cavalry, in Bengal. The Lieutenant, a near relative of the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, in Ireland, is brother-in-law of the late Vice-Admiral Henry Vansittart, and the present Lieut. Thos. Pearce Evans, R.N. His first-cousin, Matthew Pennefather, of New Park, co. Tipperary, is now representative of the family.
This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fortunée 36, Capt. Henry Vansittart, stationed on the coast of Ireland. In the summer of 1809 he removed to the Paulina brig, Capt. Westby Percival, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; where, and on the Lisbon, Cape of Good Hope, Home, and Newfoundland stations, he served, from May, 1811, to Oct. 1815, as Midshipman, in the Leviathan 74, Capt. Patrick Campbell, Andromeda 24, Capt. Rich. Arthur, Stag 36, Capt. Phipps Hornby, Procris and Pilot sloops, Capts. Curzon and John Toup Nicolas, and Bellerophon 74, and Salisbury 58, flag-ships of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats. He was next, between Oct. 1816 and July, 1817, employed as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Granicus 36, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, and Martin sloop, Capt. Andrew Mitchell – the latter stationed on the coast of Ireland. After a further servitude, chiefly in the West Indies, on board the Nautilus 18, Capt. Isham Fleming Chapman, Sybille 44, Capt. Joshua Ricketts Rowley, Surinam 18, Capt. Wm. McKenzie Godfrey, and Confiance 18, Capt. Robt. Gordon, he was confirmed a Lieutenant, 22 Aug. 1821, into the Surinam, still commanded by Capt. Godfrey, although subsequently by Capt. Chas. Crole. His last appointments were – 12 Nov. 1823, to the Eden 26, Capt. John Lawrence, likewise in the West Indies, whence he returned soon afterwards – 28 Sept. 1830, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued until the close of 1837 – and 10 May, 1839, for three years, to the Victory 104, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Hon. Buncombe Pleydell Bouverie, Admiral-Superintendent. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
PENNELL. (Captain, 1828. f-p., 14; h-p., 15.)
Follett Walrond Pennell, born 4 Feb. 1804, is sixth son of Wm. Pennell, Esq., formerly H.B.M.’s Consul-General at Rio de Janeiro. One of his sisters is the wife of the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, LL.D., many years First Secretary of the Admiralty; and another, of Geo. Barrow, Esq., eldest son of Sir John Barrow, Bart., the late Second Secretary; a third sister is married to Sir Anthony Perrier, Kt., H.B.M.’s Consul at Brest.
This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1818, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Impregnable 104, Capt. Hon. Pownoll Bastard Pellew, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Viscount Exmouth. After a servitude of about three years in the Mediterranean as Midshipman in the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, and of some months on the Home station in the Phaeton 46, and Apollo yacht, Capts. Wm. Aug. Montagu and Hon. Sir Chas. Paget, he joined, in 1823-4, the Gloucester 74, Commodore Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, and Bustard 10, Capt. Rawdon Maclean, both in the West Indies, where he was made Lieutenant, 1 Sept. 1824, into the Pyramus 42, Capt. Fras. Newcombe. On 19 Dec. 1825, having previously filled the post of Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Bingham in the Warspite 76, at Portsmouth, he was appointed to the Cyrené 20, Capt. Alex. Campbell, on the East India station. He was there promoted to the command, 13 Nov. 1826, of the Fly 18. He attained Post-rank 14 July, 1828; and was afterwards, from 31 May, 1834, until paid off in July, 1837, employed in South America in the Talbot 28. He has not been since afloat.
Capt. Pennell married, in 1838, Catherine Anna, daughter of the late Colonel M‘Murdo, of Lotus, Dumfriesshire, by whom he has issue one daughter.
PENRUDDOCK. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 16 h-p., 33.)
George Penruddock is youngest son of the late Chas. Penruddock, Esq., of Compton, M.P. for co. Wilts; and brother of the present John Hungerford Penruddock, Esq., Colonel Commandant of the 3rd Wilts Local Militia.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 July, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Adamant 50, Capt. Wm. Hotham; in which ship, while cruizing off the Isle of France in company with the Tremendous 74, he assisted as Midshipman, 11 Dec. 1799, in driving on shore the French frigate La Preneuse, under a heavy fire from the batteries in the neighbourhood of Port Louis. Quitting the Adamant in Dec. 1801, he served during the next four years on the Home and West India stations, in the Braak, Naiad frigate, Raisonnable 64, Capt. Wm. Hotham, Royal William, flag-ship of Admiral Geo. Montagu, Triumph 74, Capt. Henry Inman, and Wolf and Elk sloops, Capts. Geo. Chas. Mackenzie and Jas. Rich. Dacres. On 7 April, 1806, he was nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the Peterel sloop, Capt. John Lamborn, also in the West Indies; where, after again serving as Midshipman in the Cuba, Capt. Fred. Langford, and Bacchante 20, Capt. J. R. Dacres, he was made Full Lieutenant, 28 July, 1807, into the ship last mentioned, which was subsequently commanded by Capts. Sam. Hood Inglefield and Wm. Ward. Under Capt. Inglefield Mr. Penruddock was often in close action with the enemy, from whom he aided in wresting, 11 May, 1808, at the close of an action of 30 minutes, preceded by a long chase, Le Griffon French national brig, of 16 guns and 105 men. Being next, 21 June, 1809, appointed to the Pilot 18, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, we find him present, in company with the Ortenzia schooner, at the destruction, 24 June, 1810, of 5 out of a convoy of 51 sail, protected, near the town of St. Lucido, on the coast of Calabria, by a battery, 16 armed vessels, and a body of musketeers, whose fire killed three of the British. The vessels in question were destroyed by the shot of the Pilot and Ortenzia; the boats under Lieut. Penruddock having been received on their approach by so heavy a fire that Capt. Nicolas was induced to make the signal of recall. On 8 of the following month, being in the vicinity of the same place, Lieut. Penruddock, who was then Senior of the Pilot, handsomely volunteered, with Lieut. Fras. Chas. Annesley, to bring out two gun-boats from a secure position they had taken behind a small island – a service which was fortunately accomplished, although the vessels were well fastened to the shore, and a number of soldiers and people with musketry kept up the whole time a heavy fire on the British. The Pilot herself, on the occasion, destroyed three armed scampavias and 17 sail of transport-vessels, laden with stores and ammunition for Murat’s army at Scylla; and 17 days afterwards, acting in unison with the Thames 32 and Weazle 18, she contributed to the capture and destruction, under the batteries of Amantea, of a convoy of 31 vessels, also laden for the army of Murat, together with 7 large gun-boats and 5 scampavias. In the latter affair Lieut. Penruddock was again employed in the
