A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Penfold, George
PENFOLD. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 36; h-p., 1.)
George Penfold was born, 19 July, 1798, at Plymouth, co. Devon.
This officer (who had previously served as a Volunteer, in the Iris 36, Capt. John Tower, and had assisted, when in company, in 1807, with the Tribune 36 and Martial gun-brig, in beating off a large flotilla of Spanish gun-boats near Ferrol) entered the Navy, 26 Jan. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Solebay 32, Capt. Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, employed in the North Sea and Baltic. In Nov. 1810 he removed to the Kron Princess, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Spearing Osmer, lying in the river Medway; and in Sept. 1812, after having again served, for 12 months, in the Solebay, under the flag, at North Yarmouth, of Rear-Admiral Robt. Murray, he became Midshipman of the Horatio 38, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart; under whom, in Dec. 1813, on his return from, the Cape of Good Hope to the North Sea, he contributed to the reduction of the islands of Schouwen and Tholen. Following Lord Geo. Stuart, in March, 1814, into the Newcastle 50, he continued employed in that ship, under the command of Capts. Sam. Roberts and Henry Meynell, in North America and the West Indies, until transferred, 16 April, 1816, to the Pactolus 38, Capt. Wm. Hugh Dobbie. On leaving the latter ship, in which he had been again serving on the North American station, Mr. Penfold, in Sept. 1817, passed his examination. He was subsequently, between Aug. 1818 and Oct. 1823, employed a second time in the West Indies, on board the Ontario 18, Capt. Geo. Gosling, Confiance 18, Capts. Alex. Montgomerie and Robt. Gordon, Serapis receiving-ship, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Vernon Jackson, and Esk 20, Capt. Arthur Lee Warner. He was created a Lieutenant of the vessel last mentioned 15 Feb. 1823; and since 15 Nov. in the same year has been in command of a station in the Coast Guard.
In Jan. 1837 his name, at the recommendation of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, was placed on the Admiralty list for promotion, for services rendered to the Government of that country. The Lieutenant, who was formerly for nine years in the Commission of the Peace, married, 3 March, 1824, Mary, daughter of John and Bridget Collier, of Balbiggan, co. Dublin, by whom he has had issue seven children. Agent – J. Chippendale.