PENZER, Norman Mosley. Mawdesley, Chorley, Lancashire 30.9.1892 — Uckfield, Sussex 27.11.1960. British Folklorist and Scholar of Asia. Son of Rev. Seymour Penzer (1857–1918) and Grace Caroline Wood. Studies at Cambridge (M.A.). Private scholar with no official position. Also known as a specialist of Richard Burton. Married Kathleen Willoughby Baldrey and after divorce Dorothy Cecilia Roriston.

Publications: An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton. 16+351 p. L. 1923.

– Edited Tawney’s Kathāsaritsāgara translation (The Ocean of Story) in 10 volumes with numerous notes and appendices by Penzer. L. 1924-28.

– Translated: Nala and Damayanti. Illustrated with ten miniatures by P. Zenker. 11+ 207 p. L. 1926.

– The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo, together with the travels of Nicolò de’Conti. Edited from the Elizabethan translation of John Frampton; with introduction, notes and appendixes. 9+381 p. L. 1929.

– The Ḥarēm. An Account of the Institution as it Existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans with a History of the Grand Seraglio from its Foundation to the Present Time. 276 p. L. 1935.

– Poison-Damsels and other Essays in Folklore and Anthropology. 319 p. L. 1952.

– Wrote and edited several other works on various subjects.

Sources: Geogr. Journal 127, 1961, 142; Wikipedia; ancestry.ca.