Howard Reynold Penn

Penn, was a politician who served during the years immediately after the reintroduction of democracy in the British Virgin Islands in 1950.

Prior to the introduction of Ministerial government in 1967, various executive type posts were delegated to members of the Legislative Council in a ministerial-like fashion.

Penn was appointed Member for Trade and Production, and he was reappointed to that post from 1960 to 1963.

Penn later served as the Speaker of the House from 1971 to 1975 under Willard Wheatley's administration.

[3] Record keeping during the early years of politics in the British Virgin Islands was poor; electoral records are incomplete, and there were no newspapers published in the Territory at the time (the first newspaper in the British Virgin Islands, The Island Sun, was first published in 1962).