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    Vice-Admiral of the White; Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Ionian Order of St. Michael and St. George; and Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Neapolitan Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit.

family of Penrose is of great antiquity, and has been long settled in Cornwall, where its branches are very numerous. In the 12th of Hen. IV., John Penrose was elected M.P. for Liskard; and in the 18th Hen. VIII. Richard Penrose, of Penrose, served the office of Sheriff of the county. These circumstances are sufficient to prove the antiquity and respectability of the family.

The subject of this memoir is the second son of the Rev. John Penrose, a most eloquent and truly Christian divine, 35 years vicar of St. Gluvias, co. Cornwall.

Mr. Charles Vinicombe Penrose was born June 20, 1759; and being intended for the naval profession, he was placed, in 1772, at the Royal Academy, Portsmouth; from whence he was discharged, early in 1775, into the Levant frigate, Captain the Hon. George Murray, under whom he completed his time as a midshipman, on the Mediterranean, Channel, and North Sea stations; where he assisted at the capture of several American and French privateers, together with many merchantmen.

