Sir Isaac Pennington
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:''See Isaac Penington (disambiguation) for other people with a similar name.'' Sir Isaac Pennington (1745–1817) was an English physician, of whom there are two portraits in the
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. Isaac Pennington was educated at
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. From 1773 to 1817 he was physician to
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and from 1793 to 1817 Regius Professor of Physic at
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* 1745 births 1817 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Regius Professors of Physic (Cambridge) Professors of chemistry (Cambridge, 1702) People educated at Sedbergh School {{UK-med-bio-stub