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Richard Arthur PENNYFATHER (1889-1964)0248

Name:	Richard Arthur PENNYFATHER 1
ONS Reference:	0248
Sex:	Male
Record Id:	320
Father:	Alexander Richard PENNEYFATHER (1862-1933)
Mother:	Margaret DAVIES ( - )

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	16 Sep 1889	18 Kintore Street, Bermondsey 2
Death	17 Sep 1964 (age 78 (!))	23 Heathfield Road, Wandsworth, SW18 3

Marriage

	Spouse: Emily Louisa Draper WISE		Child: Richard Arthur PENNYFATHER, 1942, age 21, Richard Arthur Pennyfather Reg Bryan-02		Child: Richard Arthur PENNYFATHER, Reg Bryan		Child: Richard Arthur PENNYFATHER, Richard Arthur Pennyfather Reg Bryan

Spouse	Emily Louisa Draper WISE (1883-1942)
Children	Richard Arthur PENNYFATHER (1920-1996)
Marriage	17 Oct 1917 (age 28)	Register Office in the District of Camberwell in the County of London 4

Individual Note

Death In Prison Was Natural

 

South London Press - Friday 25th September 1964

 

A 78-year-old man who had spent most of his life in prison died in Wandsworth Prison from natural causes a jury decided at the inquest on Tuesday.

 

A verdict of natural causes was returned on Richard Pennyfather, who was serving seven years preventive detention at Wandsworth for larceny.

 

Michael Gale, the governor of the prison told the coroner that Pennyfather first went to Wandsworth in September 1960 but had been transferred to Parkhurst prison in 1961.

 

"He came back to Wandsworth on September 7 this year and he was admitted straight into the prison hospital because of his health"

 

Thomas Walsh, a prison officer, told the coroner that on September 17 he had gone into Pennyfather's room in the hospital and found him dead.

 

"The room was perfectly in order and there was no signs of anything being wrong." he said. Dr. Geoffrey Allen, a pathologist, said, "His lungs were in terrible condition - there was a small cancer in the right lung and they were slightly waterlogged. "His death was probably due to bronchial pneumonia - the effect of his age," he said.

Sources

1	"British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920".

	Source: British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920, Richard A Pennyfeather - Medal List

2	"Certificate".

3	"Death Certificate (Richard Arthur Pennyfather)".

	Source: Death Certificate (Richard Arthur Pennyfather), 1964 - Death - Richard Arthur Pennyfather

4	"Marriage Certificate (Richard Arthur Pennyfather)".

	Source: Marriage Certificate (Richard Arthur Pennyfather), 1917 - Marriage - Richard Arthur Pennyfather