PENNING TON

James (son of Wm. Penning ton, bookseller). b. Kendal, West more land 23 Feb. 1777; educ. Kendal gr. sch.; pupil of John Dalton, chemist in Manchester; in busine in London; appointed to investigate the accounts of the East India company 1831, appointment cancelled 1832; member of Political economy club 1828; framed the measures adopted by the treasury for regulating the currency of the West Indies 1833; a leading authority on currency and finance, was frequently consulted by the government; author of A letter to Kirkman Finlay, esq., on the importation of foreign corn and the value of the precious metals in different countries 1840; The currency of the British colonies 1848. d. 2 Nelson terrace, Clapham Common, Surrey 23 March 1862. A. R. Penning ton’s Recollections of persons and events (1895) 109–11.