Sir Alfred Richard Pennefather (16 March 1845 – 15 August 1918) was a British civil servant and from 1883 to 1909 the third holder of the post of Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, a period marked by tensions with Commissioner Charles Warren and the construction of a new headquarters for the Metropolitan Police. Born in Dublin and privately educated, he was a son of John, a barrister of King's Inn and a

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, making Alfred Richard's paternal grandfather Richard Pennefather. Alfred Richard become a clerk at the

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in 1868, rising to clerk in charge of accounts before his 1883 appointment. He also later became a visiting justice of the peace to Chelmsford Prison, a member of the House of Laymen of the

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and a member of the

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's Central Board of Finance.Norman Fairfax, ''From Quills to Computers - The History of the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff 1829-1979'' (unpublished, 1979), pages 38-46 and 99 On 9 May 1867 at the parish church in Ridge, Hertfordshire he married Thomasina Cox Savory (1845–1920), daughter of a

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and silversmith - they had no children.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pennefather, Richard People from Dublin (city) 1845 births 1918 deaths Receivers of the Metropolitan Police Knights Bachelor Companions of the Order of the Bath 19th-century British civil servants