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Abel Penfold (18 December 1833-5 February 1900) was a businessman and local politician. Born in Camberwell, he was the son a Kentish father (George Penfold, a wheelwright) and a Welsh mother (Jane Morgan), he was raised with a strong Wesleyan faith. He was a director of the Woolwich Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company until 1884, when it was amalgamated into the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company.

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rdfs:comment	Abel Penfold (18 December 1833-5 February 1900) was a businessman and local politician. Born in Camberwell, he was the son a Kentish father (George Penfold, a wheelwright) and a Welsh mother (Jane Morgan), he was raised with a strong Wesleyan faith. He was a director of the Woolwich Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company until 1884, when it was amalgamated into the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company.
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abstract	Abel Penfold (18 December 1833-5 February 1900) was a businessman and local politician. Born in Camberwell, he was the son a Kentish father (George Penfold, a wheelwright) and a Welsh mother (Jane Morgan), he was raised with a strong Wesleyan faith. Privately educated, after leaving school he worked in the upholstery business for a number of years before inheriting the Angelsea Arms, a public house in Woolwich from which he retired in 1887. He took part in local affairs as Chairman of Woolwich Local Board of Health a member of Woolwich Board of Guardians and as a governor of Woolwich Polytechnic. In 1895 he was elected to the London County Council as a Moderate Party councillor representing Woolwich, and was re-elected for a second three-year term in 1898. He was a director of the Woolwich Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company until 1884, when it was amalgamated into the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company. He was largely responsible for the creation of the Essex resort of Clacton-on-Sea. In about 1870 he first visited the area via a ship of the Woolwich Steam Packet Company. He was one of the founders of the Clacton Hotel Company, which opened the Royal Hotel in 1872. A Clacton Land Company was formed to develop the town, of which Penfold became chairman. In 1887 he formed the Clacton on Sea Steamboat Company, of which he was chairman.

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