William Joseph Penn

PENN, William Joseph. b. Leicester, 1875; d. Tarleton, Lancashire, 15 January 1956. Though born at Leicester, he was brought up at Barford, Warwickshire. He became a pupil-teacher at Royston, Hertfordshire, and then trained for the teaching profession at Peterborough Teachers’ Training College. He taught in several schools, becoming headmaster of the village school at Tarleton, near Preston, Lancashire. Penn was the author of ‘Enthrone thy God within thy heart’*, first published in BBCHB and then in Hymns for Church and School (1964), AHB, HP, and other books. The Companion to HP (1988), p. 392, refers to a letter which implies that a longer version of the hymn existed, but the four-verse...