A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pennell, Follett Walrond
PENNELL. (Captain, 1828. f-p., 14; h-p., 15.)
Follett Walrond Pennell, born 4 Feb. 1804, is sixth son of Wm. Pennell, Esq., formerly H.B.M.’s Consul-General at Rio de Janeiro. One of his sisters is the wife of the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, LL.D., many years First Secretary of the Admiralty; and another, of Geo. Barrow, Esq., eldest son of Sir John Barrow, Bart., the late Second Secretary; a third sister is married to Sir Anthony Perrier, Kt., H.B.M.’s Consul at Brest.
This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1818, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Impregnable 104, Capt. Hon. Pownoll Bastard Pellew, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Viscount Exmouth. After a servitude of about three years in the Mediterranean as Midshipman in the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, and of some months on the Home station in the Phaeton 46, and Apollo yacht, Capts. Wm. Aug. Montagu and Hon. Sir Chas. Paget, he joined, in 1823-4, the Gloucester 74, Commodore Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, and Bustard 10, Capt. Rawdon Maclean, both in the West Indies, where he was made Lieutenant, 1 Sept. 1824, into the Pyramus 42, Capt. Fras. Newcombe. On 19 Dec. 1825, having previously filled the post of Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Bingham in the Warspite 76, at Portsmouth, he was appointed to the Cyrené 20, Capt. Alex. Campbell, on the East India station. He was there promoted to the command, 13 Nov. 1826, of the Fly 18. He attained Post-rank 14 July, 1828; and was afterwards, from 31 May, 1834, until paid off in July, 1837, employed in South America in the Talbot 28. He has not been since afloat.
Capt. Pennell married, in 1838, Catherine Anna, daughter of the late Colonel M‘Murdo, of Lotus, Dumfriesshire, by whom he has issue one daughter.