| Authorised form of name | Pengelly; William (1812 - 1894) |
| Dates | 1812 - 1894 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | East Looe, Cornwall, England |
| Date of birth | 12 January 1812 |
| Place of death | His residence, Lamorna, Torquay, Devon |
| Date of death | 16 March 1894 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Torquay cemetery, Devon |
| Activity | Career:
Served at sea; became a teacher in Torquay; collected Devon fossils; explored Kent's Hole
Memberships:
FGS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1863 |
| Relationships | Quaker family |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1895-1896 vol 59 pp xxxix-xli signed by W B D |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/32780375 |
| Royal Society code | NA2162 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1863/11 | Pengelly, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/003492 | Pengelly, William | nd |
| MM/17/78 | Letter from Hester Pengelly to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 30 December 1897 |
| MS/710/81 | Letter from William Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to Robert Were Fox | 19 September 1856 |
| NLB/9/71 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 22 March 1894 |
| NLB/9/468 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 24 May 1894 |
| NLB/11/684 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas George Bonney, Fellow of the Royal Society | 16 September 1895 |
| NLB/12/502 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society | 2 March 1896 |
| NLB/12/501 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Boyd Dawkins, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 March 1896 |
| NLB/15/862 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Miss Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay | 4 January 1898 |
| NLB/15/850 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Miss Pengelly | 23 December 1897 |
| NLB/19/172 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Miss Hester Pengelly | 7 July 1899 |
| MS/710/82 | Letter from William Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to [Charles Fox?] | 14 May 1860 |
| MS/222 | Reports on excavations at Kent's Cavern by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian | 1865-1880 |
| PT/67/7 | Paper, 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey Devonshire' by William Pengelly | [1861] |
| PT/67/7/2 | Plate, portion of tunnel in pit near fault by unknown artist | [1861] |
| PT/67/7/1 | Manuscript, 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey Devonshire' by William Pengelly | [1861] |
| PT/67/7/4 | Plate, sections of the Bovey formation in plane of strike of the beds by unknown artist | [1861] |
| PT/67/7/3 | Plate, section of the Bovey formation in plane of dip of the beds by unknown artist | [1861] |
| MC/11/447 | Letter from Wm [William] Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society, London | 28 November 1879 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| AP/44/10/2 | Unpublished figure, 'Showing the uncomformability of the "head" at the western end of the "coal pit"' by William Pengelly | 1861 |
| AP/44/10/3 | Unpublished figure, strata by William Pengelly | 1861 |
| RR/5/177 | Referee's report by Joseph Prestwich, on a paper 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire' by William Pengelly | March 1862 |
| AP/44/10/1 | Manuscript, 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire [England]' by William Pengelly | 1861 |
| AP/44/10 | Paper, 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire [England]' by William Pengelly | 1861 |
| MC/11/444 | Letter from Wm [William] Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society, London | 25 November 1879 |
| RR/5/176 | Referee's report by Joseph Dalton Hooker, on a paper 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire' by William Pengelly | 4 February 1862 |