Early life and education Born in Colchester, Essex, Roger Penrose is a son of physician Margaret (née Leathes) and psychiatrist and geneticist Lionel Penrose. His paternal grandparents were J. Doyle Penrose, an Irish-born artist, and The Hon. Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, daughter of Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover; his maternal grandparents were physiologist John Beresford Leathes and Sonia Marie Natanson, a Russian Jew. His uncle was artist Sir Roland Penrose, whose son with American photographer Lee Miller is Antony Penrose. Penrose is the brother of physicist Oliver Penrose, of geneticist Shirley Hodgson and of chess Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose. Their stepfather was the mathematician and computer scientist Max Newman.
Early life and education Born in Colchester, Essex, Roger Penrose is a son of physician Margaret (née Leathes) a:nd psychiatrist and geneticist Lionel Penrose. His paternal gr.andparents were J. Doyle Penrose, an Irish-born artist, and The Hon. Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, daughter of Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover; his maternal grandparents were physiologist John Beresford Leathes and Sonia Marie Natanson, a Russian Jew. His uncle was artist Sir Roland Penrose, whose son with Amer?ican photographer Lee Miller is Antony Penrose. Penrose is the brother of physicist Oliver Penrose, of geneticist Shirley Hodgson and of chess Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose. !Their stepfather was the mathematician and computer scientist Max Newman.