FOLLETT WALROND PENNELL, Esq.
[Captain of 1828.]
Son of William Pennell, Esq., His Majesty’s Consul-General at Rio Janeiro.
This officer was born in Feb. 1804; and entered the royal navy, as midshipman on board the Impregnable 104, bearing the flag of Viscount Exmouth, at Plymouth, in Feb. 1818. He subsequently served under Captain the Hon. Fleetwood B. R. Pellew, and Commodore Sir Edward W. C. R. Owen, in the Revolutionnaire frigate, and Gloucester 74, on the Mediterranean and West India stations; wa« promoted from the latter ship into the Pyramus 42, Captain Francis Newcombe, C.B., Sept. 1st, 1824; appointed to the Rainbow 28, Captain the Hon. Henry John Rous, at Chatham, July 30th, 1825; removed to the Cyréne 20, Captain Alexander Campbell, Dec. 19th following; and advanced to the command of the Fly 18, on the East India station, Nov. 13th, 1826. His commission as captain bears date July 14th, 1828.