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George Hay Dawkins-Pennant (20 February 1764 – 17 December 1840), of

Penrhyn Castle Penrhyn Castle ( cy, Castell Penrhyn) is a country house in Llandygai, Bangor, Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, North Wales, constructed in the style of a Norman architecture, Norman castle. The Penrhyn estate was founded by Ednyfed Fychan. ...

, Caernarvonshire, and 56 Portland Place,

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, was a plantation and slave owner,

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for

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and

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. He was the second son of

Henry Dawkins Henry Dawkins II (24 May 1728 – 19 June 1814) was a Jamaican plantation and slave owner and Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (MP). Background The Dawkins family settled on Jamaica shortly after its seizure from the Spanish in 1655. ...

and his original name was George Hay Dawkins; the surname Pennant was added when he inherited the estate from his second cousin

Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1737 – 21 January 1808), was a Welsh politician and nobleman who served as an MP in the British Parliament, representing Petersfield and Liverpool for 29 years between 1761 and 1790. He was the owner of Penr ...

, who died in 1808.

Life

Dawkins-Pennant was a

(MP) for

19 May 1814 to 1818; and for

1820 to 1830. Dawkins-Pennant inherited four large sugar estates (Cotes, Denbigh, Kupuis, Pennant's) in

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, and at the time of emancipation in the 1830s, the British government compensated him for over 650 slaves in his possession. Best known for his development of the Penrhyn estates, he died immensely wealthy, leaving £600,000.

Family

Dawkins-Pennant married in 1807 Sophia Mary Maude (d. 1812), daughter of

Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden (19 September 1729 – 23 August 1803) was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Hawarden was the second son of Sir Robert Maude, 1st Baronet and his wife, Eleanor Cornwallis, daughter of Thomas Cornwallis a ...

. They had two children Juliana Isabella Mary (1808–1842) and Emma Elizabeth Isabella (1810–1888). In 1814 he married Elizabeth, daughter of

William Henry Bouverie Hon. William Henry Bouverie (1752–1806) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 26 years from 1776 to 1802. Bouverie was the second son of William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor and his second wife Rebecca Alleyne, daughter ...

. His eldest daughter and co-heiress Juliana Isabella Mary Dawkins-Pennant married Colonel Edward Gordon Douglas in August 1833, from 1841

Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (20 June 1800 – 31 March 1886), was a Scottish landowner in Wales, and a Conservative Party politician. He played a major part in the development of the Welsh slate industry. Life Born Edwa ...

of the second creation. They had two children, of which eldest son George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant succeeded his father in 1886 as the 2nd Baron Penrhyn. Emma Elizabeth Isabella Dawkins-Pennant married in 1831 Thomas-Charles, Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley (d. 1863). He left £140,000. She had children with him and his successor, also Lord Sudeley.

References

1764 births 1840 deaths UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 People from Bangor, Gwynedd Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies People from the City of Westminster British slave owners {{England-UK-MP-stub