PENGELLY

William (son of Richard Pengelly captain of a coasting ve el 1788–1861). b. Castle st. East Looe, Cornwall 12 Jany. 1812; opened a Pestalozzian school at Torquay about 1836; helped to found the Mechanics’ Institute 1837; a founder of the Torquay Natural history society 1844, honorary secretary 1851–90; a founder of the Devons hire a ociation for the advancement of literature, science, and art 1862, president 1867–8; taught mathematics and geology at Torquay and lectured in various parts of the kingdom, made a fine collection of fo ils which was purchased by Mi Burdett-Coutts and given to museum of the univ. of Oxford; examined the plant-bearing deposits at Bovey-Tracey, at Brixham cave, and at Kent’s hole, Torquay 1860–80; F.G.S. 1860, Lyell medallist 1886; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; president of geological section of British A ociation meeting 1877, and of the anthropological department 1883; presented with a testimonial of about £600, 1874; presented with his portrait in oils by A. S. Cope 1882 for his services as secretary of the Torquay Natural history society, the portrait is now in the society’s museum; author of The march of the red lions, by M. Y. 1867; Miscellaneous verses relating to Devons hire, four parts 1876–7; Kent’s cavern, its testimony to the antiquity of man 1876; Antiquity of the cave men 1877; his name is attached to upwards of 200 papers in scientific and antiquarian periodicals. d. Lamorna, Torquay 16 March 1894. bur. Torquay cemet. a memorial hall built by subscription has been added to Torquay natural history society. Quarterly journal of Geol. soc. May 1895 pp. liii–lvii ; Geol. Mag. (1894) 192, 238–9; Natural science May 1894 ; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874–82) 446–50, 1307–8.