Timeline
| 1838 |
Born March 9th. Trained as an engineer under C.H. Gregory. |
| 1867 |
Joined Geological Survey. |
| 1867 |
Surveyed parts of Essex, Hertfordshire, Suffolk, Cambridge and Lincolnshire. Joint author with Whitaker and others of Memoirs: “North-west part of Essex” (1878); with Jukes-Browne of “Neighbourhood of Cambridge” (1881); also contributed to “Country around Lincoln” (1888). |
| 1882 |
Retired from Survey on account of ill-health. |
| 1882 |
Went to South Africa. |
| 1882 |
Papers to the Geological Society on high-level coalfields of South Africa, on goldfields of Lydenburg and De Kaap, and on the geology of South Transvaal. |
| 1902 |
Died April 20th. |
Publications
| 1876 |
Textbook of Field Geology" (1876) |
| 1880 |
Engineering Geology" (1880) |
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Paper to Geological Society of physical geology of East Anglia during Glacial Period. |
Biographies and Obituaries
| 1903 |
Lapworth, C. Obituary - William Henry Penning. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 59 p.lx-lxi. 1903 |
| 1902 |
Obituary - William Henry Penning, F.G.S. Born 9th March 1838, died 20th April 1902. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 9 p.335. 1902 |
