Edward Penn

[Neville Twitchell]

I hope it is okay to use the Forum to inquire about the whereabouts of a player. Does anyone know of the current whereabouts of Edward (Eddie) Penn, who used to run Tournament Chess Supplies with Peter Morrish and latterly worked at Chess and Bridge in the 1990s and after?

[John Clarke]

Last heard about on this forum about 10 years ago, here (relevant post is right at the bottom of the page). If still around, he'd be 92 now.

[Jon D'Souza-Eva]

A death record for an Edward Penn can be found in the GRO (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/) for the year 2016. Death registered in Enfield; year of birth 1932. Cross referencing with the "find a will" site (probatesearch.service.gov.uk) gives a date of death of 25th February, 2016. You can buy the will for, I think, £2.50.

[Neville Twitchell]

A death record for an Edward Penn can be found in the GRO (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/) for the year 2016. Death registered in Enfield; year of birth 1932. Cross referencing with the "find a will" site (probatesearch.service.gov.uk) gives a date of death of 25th February, 2016. You can buy the will for, I think, £2.50.

Thanks for the information. Sorry to hear that he passed way as long as 2016. I could not find any mention of his death in the Obituary Section.

[John Clarke]

Thanks for the update, Jon. When one's been more or less out of the chess scene for a while, one's passing is liable to go unnoticed for a time, if not altogether.

As I've remarked elsewhere, Eddie was a clubmate and fellow committee member for several years in the 70s - we produced the club newsletter together. Sorry to learn that he's gone, though not wholly surprised. Reading between the lines in some of those earlier posts from 2014, I got the impression that he wasn't then in the best of health.

Enfield as place of death registration sounds right - he was a long-time resident of neighbouring Palmers Green (and I can remember his being mentioned somewhere as having had some sort of link with the former Enfield Town football club, although I can't now track it down).

[Leonard Barden]

Eddie Penn was the chief organiser of the highly successful Enfield congress, which ran for several years in the early and mid-1970s and had nearly a thousand competitors at its peak.

[John Townsend]

Forumites may like to see the photograph of Hartston being "knighted" by Penn in Edward Winter's article on William Hartston:

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/ext ... ston1.html

The source of the photograph was CHESS, September 1973, page 351.

Winter corresponded briefly with Penn over Miles' "A cable" message.

See C.N. 8253 in https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/miles.html

[John Clarke]

If I get time in the next day or two, I intend to post some of my personal memories of Eddie.

(But Carl: now we all know what's happened, maybe this thread should be relocated to Deaths and Obituaries?)