Family and Education
b. ?28 Oct. 1419, On 17 May 1441 his father, giving testimony at a proof of age, claimed that he had had a son on this date: CIPM, xxv. 521. Such reminiscences in proofs are often no more than fictions. 1st s. of Sir John Pennington*. m. Elizabeth (fl.1482), da. of Sir Nicholas Radcliffe*, His wife’s Christian name is certain and her family is identified as Radcliffe in a 16th-century visitation: J. Foster, Ped. of Sir Josslyn Pennington, 32, 37. Significantly, Sir Nicholas Radcliffe was one of the feoffees who made a settlement on the marriage of the couple’s eldest son in 1452: Cumbria RO, Whitehaven, Pennington-Ramsden mss, D/Pen 32/18. at least 2s. The s. of his yr. s. William inherited the family patrimony in 1522: Foster, 49-50.
Offices Held
Capt. of Pont Audemer 6 Nov. 1441–22 Nov. 1443.
Steward of Wexford, Ire., for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, 27 Aug. 1450 – ?
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Muncaster, Cumb.
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Commons 1422-1461
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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