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Isaac Penington (disambiguation) Isaac Penington (or Pennington) may refer to: *Isaac Penington (Lord Mayor) (1584–1661), Lord Mayor of London *Isaac Penington (Quaker) (1616–1679), early Quaker, son of Isaac Penington above *Isaac Pennington :''See Isaac Penington ...

for other people with a similar name.'' Sir Isaac Pennington (1745–1817) was an English physician, of whom there are two portraits in the

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. Isaac Pennington was educated at

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and

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corpo ...

. From 1773 to 1817 he was physician to Addenbrooke's Hospital in

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and from 1793 to 1817 Regius Professor of Physic at

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* 1745 births 1817 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Regius Professors of Physic (Cambridge) Professors of chemistry (Cambridge, 1702) {{UK-med-bio-stub