Richard Augustus Frederick Pennell
(1 AUG 1793 - 23 DEC 1852)
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Harriet Roberts
(22 MAY 1790 - 12 JUL 1862)
Swinfen Jordan
(1803 - AFT 1881)
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Louisa Mary Pennell
(17 FEB 1803 - 16 FEB 1876)
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John Wilson Croker Pennell
(12 JAN 1820 - 29 APR 1877)
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Elizabeth Fanny Jordan
(29 NOV 1834 - 3 JUN 1908)
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Theodore Leighton Pennell
Birth Date 7 OCT 1867
Birth Place Clifton, Bristol, England [S251]
Death Date 23 MAR 1912
Death Place Bannu, NW Frontier, India [S155]
Spouses of Theodore Leighton Pennell
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Dr Alice Maude Sorabji
Birth Date ABT 1870
Death Date 1951
Marriage Date 17 OCT 1908
Marriage Place Cathedral, Allahabad, India
Notes for Theodore Leighton Pennell
Of Afghanistan and Punjab. Medical missionary. Educated Eastbourne College.

Brilliant linguist

MD London. Gold Medal

1881 TLP aged 13, born Clifton Bristol, at 14 Uppleton, Eastbourne Sussex with widowed mother Eliza F. Pennell

1910 Kaiser-i-Hind gold medal

1912 TLP of Bannu, NW Frontier, India. Will proved. Exec William Leighton Jordan esq. attorney of Alice Maude Pennell. Effects £25,202 16s 1d

1979 Alice Pennell visited Eastbourne College. Died in a convent in England after this date.

Died of Blood poisoning

Wrote "Among the wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier" "Things Seen in Northern India"

Dressed like a Pathan and ran a school hospital and printing press in Bannu for 20 years.

Told by General Lord Roberts, that he was worth 2 regiments when given his way with the Afghan tribes.

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