1737 - 1808 (71 years)
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Name |
Richard (1st Baron Penrhyn) Pennant |
Birth |
1737 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
21 Jan 1808 |
Person ID |
I80519 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
21 Aug 2016 |
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Notes |
- Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1737 ? 21 January 1808) was an Irish slave owner, anti-abolitionist Member of Parliament (MP) and peer.
Pennant owned vast properties in Caernarfonshire and six sugar plantations in Jamaica, where he owned over six hundred enslaved workers. He inherited half of his Welsh estate from his wife, Ann Susannah Pennant nee Warburton; the daughter of General Hugh Warburton, the other half from his father, John Pennant (Warburton's business partner). On his death, Richard's entire estate was inherited by his second cousin, George Hay Dawkins (1763? 1840), who subsequently adopted the surname of Dawkins-Pennant. Dawkins' daughter Juliana and her husband were named as co-heirs of the estate on the condition that they also took the surname Pennant (which they duly accepted). Dawkins' son-in-law, Edward Gordon Douglas, was later created 1st Baron Penrhyn of Llandygai.
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