Sir Aubrey Penhew

Formerly the director of the Penhew Foundation in London
Background Info Dug Up:

• Young Sir Aubrey was caught pinching a policeman’s helmet in 1898, while at Oxford.
• Limited service as a Lieutenant with the Yorkshire Guards, 1901-1902, breveted as a Colonel in British Army Intelligence, 1915-1916, and then retired due to injury.
• Penhew’s public life is easily followed in Who’s Who, Burke’s Peerage, etc. Sir Aubrey graduated with honors in Classics from Oxford, but spent the next several years in Egypt, surveying and performing exploratory excavations amid the then little known wonders up-river, to the First Cataract and beyond.
• As his official biography notes, Sir Aubrey is credited with founding several important branches of Egyptology, and for several important archaeological discoveries, particularly at Dahshur.
• Nearly as important, the Penhew Foundation in England, set up by Sir Aubrey, has underwritten many influential researches at home and abroad, and is responsible for the education of many brilliant but penniless scholars.
• With the inevitable nimbus of black sheep and blackguards down through the centuries, the Penhews trace their nobility from the time of William the Conqueror, when Sir Boris Penhew acquired great holdings in the west of England. With the exception of one Sir Blaize, who was beheaded for treason and black magic (his crimes nearly cost the line its titles and properties), the Penhew prosperity and prestige has been undiminished for eight centuries.
• Sir Aubrey has title to several famous stately homes, as well as mansions in London, the Cotswolds, Monaco, and Alexandria (Egypt), and townhouses in Paris, Rome, and Athens. He is incontestably wealthy, and reputedly made new fortunes from his American holding companies during the Great War.
• Though a public figure, Sir Aubrey’s private life is little known. He is a bachelor, without family or heirs, other than the Penhew Foundation. His Egyptologist peers hold him in high regard.

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a.k.a. The Pale Viper (China) Formerly the director of the Penhew Foundation in London, he now works feverishly towards the Great Plan to open the way for the Old Ones.