Samuel Pennant

Sir Samuel Pennant (died May 1750) was a Lord Mayor of London.^[1]

He was appointed a Sheriff of London for 1745, knighted in the same year, and then elected Lord Mayor for 1749 but died the following year in office, one of a large number of dignitaries and attendants afflicted by an outbreak of "gaol fever" in the courtroom of the Old Bailey, which adjoined Newgate Prison.^[2] There is a monument to him in the church of St Michael Paternoster Royal. He was succeeded as Lord Mayor by .

Sir Samuel's brother was the father of Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn. He was also a distant relative of the Welsh naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant.

References[]

^ Thomas Richards. "PENNANT (and DOUGLAS-PENNANT) family, of Penrhyn, Llandygâi, Caerns.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
^ Gordon, Charles The Old Bailey and Newgate pp.331-2. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1902

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[1] Thomas Richards. "PENNANT (and DOUGLAS-PENNANT) family, of Penrhyn, Llandygâi, Caerns.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

[2] Gordon, Charles The Old Bailey and Newgate pp.331-2. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1902

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