WILLIAM PENN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1181, 17 July 1911, Page 5

WILLIAM PENN.

AN AMERICAN MEMORIAL IN A LONDON CHURCH. SPEECH BY LORD KITCHENER. By Q'tlcEraßh—Press AEsocialion-Ooryrls M London, July H. Tho first American memorial in England to 'William Penn, tho founder of Pennsylvania, has been unveiled in Allhailows Church, Barking, where Penn was baptised. Jinny descendants of Penn, including Lord Eanfurly (ex-Gov-ernor of New Zealand), were present. At a subsequent dinner Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener, responding to tho toast of "Tho Annies of America, Britain, and the Overseas Dominions," said Australia possessed a college, full of cadets, based on tho principles of West Point Academy, proving the "admiration of Britishers for the institution, which provided America, with officers. It also showed tho energy of Australia and New Zealand in the study of military problems.

William Penn was barn at London, in IGM, and died at Euscombe, Berks'., England in 1718. He was tho sou of Admiral Sir William Penn, and was educated at Oxford. In IC6B he became a preacher of the Friends, and was arrested several times under the Conventicle Act. He became part proprietor of West Jersey in 1675, received tho grant of Pennsylvania in 1081, and in 1082 went out in person to America, founded Philadelphia, and made a treaty with the Indians. In IGS4 ho returned to England. Having been suspected of intriguing to restore James 11, no was, in 1692, deprived of the government of Pennsylvania, which was, however, restored to him in 169-1. Ho visited Pennsylvania again in 1699. Ho wroto various religious p.nd controversial works, a collectivo edition of which anpeared in 1726, under tho title "A Collection of tho Works of William Penn, to which is prefixed a. Journal of his Life, etc,"

Tho Church of All Hallows, Barking (so called from its founders, the nuns of Barking Abbey) contains somo fine examples of brass memorials and ono or two altar tombs of great antiquity. In this church were buried several of those personages who had been lwheaded on Tower Fill, which is situated in tho vicinity. William Penn was born in a court upon the east side of Tower Hill.