Gamel Augustus Pennington, 4th Baron Muncaster (3 December 1831 – 13 June 1862), styled Hon. Gamel Pennington until 1838, was an Irish peer and British landowner. A member of an old Cumberland family, he served as

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in 1859. He died of illness in Italy in 1862, leaving an infant daughter to succeed to his estates, while his peerage passed to his younger brother.

Life

The eldest son of

Lowther Pennington, 3rd Baron Muncaster Lowther Augustus John Pennington, 3rd Baron Muncaster (14 December 1802 – 30 April 1838), styled Hon. Lowther Pennington from 1813 to 1818, was a landowner in northern England and an Irish peer. Lowther was the only son of General Lowther Penni ...

and his wife Frances, Pennington was born at Warter Priory, one of the family seats. He succeeded his father in 1838 as

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, and inherited the family estates in

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and Yorkshire, including

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. Muncaster was educated at

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from 1845 to 1849, admitted to

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on 25 February 1850, and graduated with a

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in 1853. On 8 June 1854, he was commissioned a deputy lieutenant of the

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. He married Lady Jane Grosvenor, the daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, on 2 August 1855. They had one child, Hon. Margaret "Mimi" Susan Elizabeth Pennington (1860 – 8 July 1871). Muncaster was commissioned a deputy lieutenant of Cumberland on 10 July 1856. Lord Muncaster died on 13 June 1862 at

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, of "gastric fever" and was buried at Muncaster on 29 July. He died intestate, so while he was succeeded in the peerage by his brother, Josslyn, the Muncaster estates went to Gamel's daughter Margaret. They did pass to Josslyn when she died young in 1871.

References

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