Abstract
Lionel Sharples Penrose was born in London on 11 June 1898. His father James Doyle Penrose (1862-1932) who was a portrait painter and his mother Elizabeth Josephine (Peckover) Penrose were both members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), as their ancestors had been for more than 200 years. He was the second of four brothers. They were brought up strictly according to the religious principles of the Society of Friends. On Sundays for example no games were allowed nor the reading of fiction, though the study of natural history and of astronomy in particular was encouraged. In later life though he remained a member of the Society of Friends he was not particularly zealous about religious meetings. However, his Quaker upbringing no doubt played an important part in determining his extreme dislike of show and pretentiousness and his pacifist outlook. Also he never acquired a taste for fiction. He went to The Downs School at Colwall (1908-11) and then to Leighton Park School at Reading (1912-16). After leaving school he served in the Friends’ Ambulance Train of the British Red Cross in France, and was demobilized after the end of the War in 1918.
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