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Sir Alfred Richard Pennefather (16 March 1845 – 15 August 1918) was a British civil servant and from 1883 to 1909 the third holder of the post of Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, a period marked by tensions with Commissioner Charles Warren and the construction of a new headquarters for the Metropolitan Police.
Born in Dublin and privately educated, he was a son of John, a barrister of King's Inn and a Queen's Counsel, making Alfred Richard's paternal grandfather Richard Pennefather. Alfred Richard become a clerk at the Home Office in 1868, rising to clerk in charge of accounts before his 1883 appointment. He also later became a visiting justice of the peace to Chelmsford Prison, a member of the House of Laymen of the Province of Canterbury and a member of the Church of England's Central Board of Finance. On 9 May 1867 at the parish church in Ridge, Hertfordshire he married Thomasina Cox Savory (1845-1920), daughter of a goldsmith and silversmith - they had no children.
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