Samuel Pennant

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Sir Samuel Pennant (died May 1750) was a Lord Mayor of London. He was appointed a Sheriff of London for 1745, knighted in the same year, and then elected Lord Mayor for 1749 but died the following year in office, one of a large number of dignitaries and attendants afflicted by an outbreak of "gaol fever" in the courtroom of the Old Bailey, which adjoined Newgate Prison. There is a monument to him in the church of St Michael Paternoster Royal. He was succeeded as Lord Mayor by . He is buried in St Michael Paternoster Royal with his tomb being sculpted by John Michael Rysbrack. rdf:langString
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rdf:langString Sir Samuel Pennant (died May 1750) was a Lord Mayor of London. He was appointed a Sheriff of London for 1745, knighted in the same year, and then elected Lord Mayor for 1749 but died the following year in office, one of a large number of dignitaries and attendants afflicted by an outbreak of "gaol fever" in the courtroom of the Old Bailey, which adjoined Newgate Prison. There is a monument to him in the church of St Michael Paternoster Royal. He was succeeded as Lord Mayor by . Sir Samuel's brother was the father of Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn. He was also a distant relative of the Welsh naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant. He is buried in St Michael Paternoster Royal with his tomb being sculpted by John Michael Rysbrack.
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