last woman to be judicially executed in Britain. Canadian author Margaret Laurence (1926–1987) lived in Elm Cottage on Beacon Hill in 1963–1973. It had been previously owned by the politician Sir Donald Maclean and Lady Maclean, parents of the Soviet spy Donald Maclean. The Princesses Sophia Duleep Singh (suffragette) and Catherine Duleep Singh (1876-1948), daughters of the Maharaja Duleep Singh (1871-1942) and Bamba Müller, lived in Penn during World War II and hosted children evacuated from London as well as German Jewish refugees. References External links Penn and Tyler's Green Community and Village website – run by the Penn & Tylers Green Residents' Society – this site contains news, events, photos and a village map and articles. Penn and Tylers Green FC Villages in Buckinghamshire Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire