Samuel Pennant
Sir Samuel Pennant (died May 1750) was a Lord Mayor of London.[1]
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.[2] There is a monument to him in the church of St Michael Paternoster Royal. He was succeeded as Lord Mayor by John Blachford
.
Sir Samuel's brother John 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.[3]
References
- ^ Thomas Richards. "PENNANT (and DOUGLAS-PENNANT) family, of Penrhyn, Llandygâi, Caerns.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ Gordon, Charles The Old Bailey and Newgate pp.331-2. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1902
- ^ Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.338
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