Penn, Albert Thomas Watson, 1849-1924 (photographer)
Dates
- Existence: 1849 - 1924
Biography
Albert Thomas Watson Penn was born at Street, Wells on 30th March 1849. His first appearance in India appears to have been in around 1875, in which year he was advertising in Thacker's' Directory as a commercial photographer at Ootacamund (also known as Udagamandalam). He lived and had a studio at Cranley Cottage from 1880. In 1911 his business was styled 'Ootacamund Photo Establishment'. Apart from visits to Europe he continued in Ootacamund until circa 1913, in later years also running the Reliance Auction and Commission Agency and the Farrington (or Farington) Hotel. He is not recorded in later directories although he evidently remained in India after his retirement. He died of cerebral apoplexy at Coonor on 19th October 1924 and was buried there the following day in Tiger Hill Cemetery, All Saints Church (Madras burials: IOR/N/2/136 f. 212).
Publications:
Carmichael, Amy Wilson- (1907), 'Overweights of joy', London : Morgan and Scott. [Contains photographs by Penn].
Carmichael, Amy Wilson- (1910), 'Lotus buds'. London: Morgan and Scott. [All but two photographs by Penn].
Sources:
Madras burials: IOR/N/2/136 f.212.
St Catherine's House (index of births).
Thackers directories.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
A ‘chosen few’, famine of 78/79, [?] Binicunnyalun, near Bangalore, 1878 - 1879
151 x 194 mm. Grouped portrait of emaciated famine victims posed in the doorway of a thatched house. Full accounts of the Indian famines of the 1870s can be found in the Parliamentary Command Papers, Report of the Indian Famine Commission. See in particular Part III, Famine histories (c. 3086 of 1885).
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