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Sir James Pennyman, 6th Baronet (1736–1808) was a British politician who sat in the

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for 26 years from 1770 to 1796.

Life

Pennyman was the only son of Ralph Pennyman of Beverley and his wife Bridget Gee, daughter of Thomas Gee of Bishop Burton, Yorkshire and was baptized on 6 December 1736. He was educated at

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in 1749, and matriculated at

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in 1756. He married firstly Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Sir Henry Grey, 2nd Baronet of Howick, Northumberland on 9 December 1762. He succeeded his father in 1768, and succeeded his uncle in the

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on 14 January 1770. Pennyman was elected

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for

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at a by-election on 27 November 1770. At the 1774 general election he was elected MP for

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and was re-elected in 1780, 1784 and 1790. He stood down at the

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. Pennyman made a second marriage to Mary Maleham (or Matcham) of Westminster in May 1801. He died on 27 March 1808. His first wife, Lady Pennyman (who died only a few weeks before his second marriage), is buried in

Dawlish Dawlish is an English seaside resort town and civil parish in Teignbridge on the south coast of Devon, from the county town of Exeter and from the larger resort of Torquay. Its 2011 population of 11,312 was estimated at 13,355 in 2019. It is t ...

parish church with a monument by

John Flaxman John Flaxman (6 July 1755 – 7 December 1826) was a British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. Early in his career, he worked as a modeller for Josiah Wedgwood's pottery. He spent several yea ...

.''Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851'' by Rupert Gunnis, p. 150

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pennyman, Sir James, 1st Baronet 1736 births 1808 deaths British MPs 1768–1774 British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 British MPs 1790–1796 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of England