Penington is a surname indicating a family origin in Pennington, Lancashire;

Pennington, Cumbria Pennington is a small village and civil parish in Furness, a region of Cumbria, England. Pennington lies between Ulverston, Rosside and Lindal. Pennington is located just off the nearby A590, with the nearest railway link in Ulverston. __TOC__ ...

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Pennington, Hampshire Pennington is a ward (electoral and ecclesiastical) in the civil parish of Lymington and Pennington, in the New Forest District, New Forest district of Hampshire, England, which is defined based on the boundaries of the earlier manor. Penningto ...

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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Order of the British Empire, CBE (8 June 1912 – 26 January 2004) was one of the foremost British Abstract art, abstract artists, a member of the influential Penwith Society of Arts. Early life Wilhelmina Barns-Grah ...

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Isaac Penington (Lord Mayor) Sir Isaac Penington (c. 1584 – 16 December 1661) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1642 and a prominent member of Oliver Cromwell's governm ...

(1584–1661), English merchant and Lord Mayor of the City of London *

Isaac Penington (Quaker) Isaac Penington (1616–1679) was one of the early members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England. He wrote about the Quaker movement and was an influential promoter and defender of it. Life He was the oldest son of Isaac Pen ...

(1616–1679), English religious activist, son of the aforementioned Isaac *Sir Isaac Pennington (1745–1817), British physician * John B. Penington (1825–1902), American politician

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