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WILLIAM SYDNEY PENLEY (1852– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 99 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:SYDNEY See also:PENLEY (1852– )  , See also:English actor, was See also:born at See also:Broadstairs, and educated in See also:London, where his See also:father had a school . He first made his See also:mark as a comedian by his exceedingly amusing performance as the See also:curate in The Private Secretary, a See also:part in which he succeeded Beerbohrn See also:Tree; but he is even more associated with the See also:title role in See also:Brandon See also:Thomas's Charley's Aunt (1892), a See also:farce which had an unprecedentedly See also:long run and was acted all over the See also:world . PENMARC'H, a See also:village of western See also:France in the See also:department of See also:Finistere, 18 m . S.W. of See also:Quimper by road . Pop . (r906), of the village, 387; of the See also:commune, 5702 . On the extremity of the See also:peninsula on which it is situated are fortified remains of a See also:town which was of considerable importance from the 14th to the 16th centuries and included, besides Penmarc 'h, St Guenole and Kerity . It owed its prosperity to its See also:cod-See also:banks, the disappearance of which together with the See also:discovery of the See also:Newfoundland cod-banks and the pillage of the See also:place by the bandit La See also:Fontenelle in 1595 contributed to its decadence . The See also:church of St Nouna, a See also:Gothic See also:building of the See also:early 16th See also:century at Penmarc 'h, and the church of St Guenole, an unfinished See also:tower of the 15th century and the church of Kerity (15th century) are of See also:interest . The See also:coast is very dangerous . On the Point de Penmarc 'h stands the Phare d'See also:Eckmuhl, with a See also:light visible for 6o See also:miles . There are numerous megalithic monuments in the vicinity .

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