In Loving Memory of
Sophia Penhall
Wife of
John Thomas Penhall M.O.
1827 - 1909
'Willing rather to be absent from the
body and to be at home with the Lord"
II Corinthians 5:8
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Also of
John Thomas Penhall
Husband of the Above
Who fell asleep in Jesus
July 14th 1916
The Cedars, Broadwas.
1833 - 1916
"Strengthened with all might, according
To His Glorious Power, unto all Patience and
Ones Suffering with Joyfulness" Colossians 1:11-14

Born March 26th, 1833, the son of John Thomas Penhall, victualler; studied at St Thomas's Hospital; joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on August 4th, 1855; and resigned on March 5th, 1856. He then settled in practice at 2 Priory Houses, Robertson Street, Hastings, and in 1857 was appointed Surgeon to the Hastings Dispensary, and later Medical Officer to the 2nd District of the Hastings Union. By 1863 he was practising at 5 Eversfield Place, St Leonards-on-Sea, and was Assistant Surgeon to the East Sussex Infirmary, where in 1866 he became Surgeon. Later he was Surgeon to the Home for Gentlewomen at St Leonards. After 1887 he retired to The Cedars, Broadwas-on-Teme, Worcester, where he died on July 14th, 1916.

Occupation: General surgeon Titles/Qualifications: MRCS April 23rd 1855 FRCS December 11th 1873 L & MSA 1855 MD St Andrews

Author: Royal College of Surgeons of England Publication Date: created: 26th September, 2012. Collection: Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

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William Penhall (27 October 1858 – 3 August 1882) was an English mountaineer. The son of Dr John Penhall MRCS LSA (born 1833 at St Pancras, Middlesex, in 1871 a general practitioner in Hastings, Sussex), Penhall was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1881. At the time of the 1881 census, he was enumerated at Trinity, giving his place of birth as Hastings, Sussex, and his occupation as "No Occ." William Penhall and Meiringen guide Andreas Maurer were killed by an avalanche high up on the Wetterhorn on 3rd August, 1882. Penhall and Maurer share a double gravestone in the Grindelwald cemetery. The 1st of August 1882 the 24 year old medical student Penhall and his friend F. J: Church met in Grindelwald. Their plan was to travel across the Bernese Alps to Zermatt together with the famous guides Andreas Maurer and Rudlof Kaufmann. Eager to get started Penhall suggested that he and Maurer should climb the 3707 meter high Wetterhorn directly from Grindelwald without an overnight sleep. It was snowing high on the mountain the coming days. One hour after midnight the 3rd of August they left the Bear Hotel and disappeared into the black night. Getting higher and higher up the Upper Grindelwald glacier we can assume that they talked about the experiences they had had in the mountains; Maurer of his ascent of Aiguille Verte and Penhall of his race with Mummery to be the first to climb the Zmutt ridge of the Matterhorn.