Sir Josiah Penn

In the novel By the Pricking of My Thumbs,  Major-General Sir Josiah Penn, K.M.G., C.B., D.S.O. is one of Tommy Beresford's connetions within the secret service. He refers to Tuppence as Mrs Tommy.

Sir Josiah also used to know Tommy's aunt Ada. The had a moonlit picnic at a beach when he was a young subaltern, just before he left for India. Had he had better prospects, he would have liked to propose to her at that time.

He is bullied by his housekeeper and by his Scottish gardener.