Richard Penn (FRS)
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{{Infobox person
| name = Richard Penn
| image = Richard Penn Gauci.jpg
| caption = Penn, 1834 lithograph
| birth_date = {{birth year|1784}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1863|04|21|1784|df=y}}
| death_place = Richmond, London
| father = Richard Penn (governor)
}}
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 on 18 November 1824, and died unmarried at Richmond, Surrey, on 21 April 1863.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Penn, Richard|volume=44}}
Works
- 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 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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