Sir Samuel Pennant (died May 1750) was a Lord Mayor of London. He was appointed a

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for 1745, knighted in the same year, and then elected

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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

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, which adjoined

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. There is a monument to him in the church of St Michael Paternoster Royal. He was succeeded as Lord Mayor by John Blachford. Sir Samuel's brother

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was the father of Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn. He was also a distant relative of the Welsh naturalist and antiquarian

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. He is buried in St Michael Paternoster Royal with his tomb being sculpted by John Michael Rysbrack.Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.338

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Year of birth missing 1750 deaths Sheriffs of the City of London 18th-century lord mayors of London {{Lord-Mayor-of-London-stub