RP Commander of "The Hawke" Honourable East India Co.. HEIC records.

Captains were able to ship their own goods for trading so made comfortable profits.

1786 13 Aug returned from China & Madras

18 May 1793 Richard made his Will appointing Daniel PENNELL & Richard LEWIN his executors. (Daniel pre-deceased him). After bequests, the residue was vested in Richard LEWIN in trust.

1795 22 Apr retired

1797 June. Richard Pennell Esq. of EIMS "Hawke" his PCC Will proved. Execs Richard Lewin & Daniel Pennell. (deceased) so assigned to John Pope executor in trust.

RP's M.I. is a brass lectern at St Margaret, Topsham given by his three remaining children. See PENNELL story re his voyages.

Inscription on urns presented to him.

1. Presented by Order of the Governor General in Council of Fort William in Bengal to Richd. Pennel Esq. of the United Company of Merchants of England Trading in the East Indies in testimony of the service which he has rendered to the company ( whose interests are essentially promoted by sea) in the great care & attention with which he executed the orders of the Government AD 1791 in accommodating in his ship a detachment of native volunteers from Bengal to Fort George, to reinforce the Army engaged under Earl Cornwallis in the War between the East India Company and Tippoo Sultan & in conciliating the Hindu soldiers to expeditions"

2. Inscription on Hawke Cup,originally belonging to Harry Lewin Pennell now in possession of Reginald David Lee Pennell. " Presented to Capt. Richard Pennell of the Hon'able Company's ship "Hawke" as a mark of esteem & respect in consequence of the civilities and attention experienced from him on a voyage from Madras to Bengal in Octr. 1790. By his Friends Isaac SCHOMBERG, Valentine COCK, John WRANGHAM, Thomas GREEN & Charles SUTHERLAND."

Book "Biographical Index of Maritime Service Officers" by Anthony FARRINGTON publ

British Library 1999 ISBN 07123 4647 3 (see at BL India Library

Pennell, Richard b c 1754

seaman LLoyd (not HEIC) up the Straits 9 months

seaman Lyon ( "") to Newfoundland 9 months

2nd mate Sampson ("") to America 1 year

1st mate Elliott ("") to Newfoundland & the Straits 4 yrs

Master George ("") 2 Dec 1778 aged 24 (date of promotion)

1st Mate Raymond HEIC 1782/3

1st Mate Essex HEIC (4th of that name) 1784/5

Capt Hawke HEIC 1786/7. 1789/90 & 1792/3

• 1 Richard Lewin Pennell = Jane Hyde
  
  • 1 Henry Hyde Pennell
    
  • 2 Elizabeth Rebecca Pennell
    
  • 3 Mary Pennell
    
  • 4 Richard Lewin Pennell
    
  • 5 George Brice Pennell = Mary Mist
    
    • 1 Marian Jane Pennell
      
    • 2 Amy Frances Pennell
      
    • 3 Rosamond Lee Pennell
      
    • 4 Alice Margaret Mary Pennell
      
    • 5 Richard Henry Edmund Pennell = Frances Mary Corcoran
      
    • 6 Eva Gertrude Pennell = Henry Handyside Bruce Piers
      
    • 7 George Herbert Pennell = Anna Nancy Landon
      
    • 7 George Herbert Pennell = Frances Lucy La Fone
      
  • 6 Edward Hyde Pennell
    
  • 7 Agnes Jane Pennell = James Turner Hill
    
    • 1 Agnes Jane Hill
      
    • 2 Gertrude Ella Hill
      
    • 3 James Pennell Hill = Florence Ida Currie
      
    • 4 Reginald Montgomery Hill = Emily Lewis
      
    • 5 Lewin Probyn Hill
      
    • 6 Ethel Cunliffe Hill
      
    • 7 Lilian Mary Hill
      
    • 8 Sackville Lee Frangcon Hill
      
    • 9 Eustace St Claire Hill
      
    • 10 Muriel Agnes Hill
      
  • 8 Thomas Grier Pennell
    
  • 9 Florence Sarah Pennell
    
  • 10 Gertrude Pennell = Frederick de Mounteney Dirs Mertens
    
    • 1 Gertrude Dirs Mertens
      
    • 2 Basil Herman Mountenay Mertens
      
    • 3 Mary Beatrice Dirs Mertens
      
    • 4 Agnes Elizabeth Hyde Mertens
      
    • 5 Arthur Lewin De Mounteney Mertens = Alice Clarke
      
    • 6 Cyril Pennell Mertens = Marguerite Daisy Saxton
      
    • 7 Edith Lee Mertens
      
    • 8 Bertha Mary Mertens
      
    • 9 Ruth Emma Dirs Mertens
      
    • 10 Reginald John Mertens
      
    • 11 Reginald Herman Cuthbert Mertens
      
    • 12 Bernard De Mounteney Mertens = Violet G. Leeky
      
    • 13 Hugh Grier Mertens
      
  • 11 Reginald Pennell = Jessie Clara Holland
    
    • 1 Jessie Winifred Pennell
      
    • 2 Reginald Humphrey Lee Pennell = Margaret Edith Tadman
      
    • 3 Gwladys Evelyn Pennell = Ernest James Tadman
      
    • 4 Henry Lewin Lee Pennell = Catherine Mary Maskew Hodson
      
    • 5 Dorothy Lee Pennell
      
    • 6 Margaret Nesta Lee Pennell = Thomas St.P Ffrench O'Brian K. Blake
      
    • 7 Kenneth Eustace Lee Pennell = Elizabeth Payne Danby
      
  • 12 Arthur Pennell = Grace Kneeland
    
  • 12 Arthur Pennell = Agnes Kneeland
    
• 2 Mary Jane Pennell
  
• 3 Henry Boulton Pennell = Ann Tozer
  
  • 1 Anne Rebecca Pennell
    
  • 2 Emma Pennell
    
  • 3 Frances Pennell
    
  • 4 Mary Jane Pennell
    
  • 5 Henry Lee Pennell = Rosalie Jane Onslow
    
    • 1 Henry Lee Pennell
      
  • 6 Richard Pennell
    
  • 7 Edwin Francis Pennell = Henrietta Copeland
    
    • 1 Charles Lewin Pennell
      
    • 2 Henry Singleton Pennell
      
    • 3 Rosalie Frances Pennell
      
    • 4 Hilda Mary Pennell
      
  • 7 Edwin Francis Pennell = Ellen
    
  • 8 Charles Pennell
    
  • 9 Alfred Pennell = Georgina Matilda Hollis
    
    • 1 Ethel Pennell = John Barlow
      
    • 2 Ernest Brice Pennell = Florence Irving
      
  • 10 Lovell Pennell = Jessie Symonds
    
    • 1 Margaret Mary Daisy Pennell = S. Clifford Hayman
      
    • 1 Margaret Mary Daisy Pennell = Ernest Richardson
      
    • 2 Dorothy Pennell
      
  • 11 Myra Pennell