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Sir James Pennyman, 6th Baronet (1736–1808) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons 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 Westminster School in 1749, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford 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 baronetcy on 14 January 1770.

Pennyman was elected Member of Parliament for Scarborough at a by-election on 27 November 1770. Pennyman employed the future Methodist leader Elizabeth Rhodes during the later 1770s as a governess to his daughter. Rhodes witnessed the Gordon Riots from Pennyman's home in 1780.

At the 1774 general election he was elected MP for Beverley and was re-elected in 1780, 1784 and 1790. He stood down at the 1796.

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 parish church with a monument by John Flaxman.

References

1. Trust, National. "Sir James Pennyman Bt (1736 - 1808) 709309". nationaltrustcollections.org.uk.
2. ^ "PENNYMAN, Sir James, 6th Bt. (1736-1808), of Ormesby, Yorks". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Pennyman, (Sir) James (Bart.)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
4. Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004), "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. ref:odnb/70506, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70506, retrieved 2 March 2023
5. Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis, p. 150

• 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
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