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Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (born Douglas; 20 June 1800 – 31 March 1886), was a Scottish Conservative Party politician, landowner in Wales, and slave owner in Jamaica. He played a major part in the development of the Welsh slate industry.
Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, with a deputation of quarrymen from the Penrhyn Quarry. Baron Penrhyn is a title that has been created twice. The first creation came in the Peerage of Ireland in 1783 in favour of Richard Pennant, who had previously served as a Member of Parliament for Petersfield and Liverpool.
Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1737 – 21 January 1808) was a British politician who represented Petersfield and Liverpool in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1761 to 1790. He was the owner of Penrhyn Castle , an estate on the outskirts on Bangor , North Wales .
Edward, the grandson of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, was created the 1st Baron Penrhyn (second creation) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1866. In accordance with his father-in-law's wishes, he assembled a major collection of pictures for the castle. He was succeeded by his son, George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, in 1886. [16]
Lord Penrhyn Lord Penrhyn illustrated in Punch (6 May 1903) by Edward Tennyson Reed. George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn (born Douglas; 30 September 1836 – 10 March 1907) was a British peer and landowner who played a prominent part in the Welsh slate industry as the owner of the Penrhyn Quarry in North Wales.
Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1800–1886), Scottish landowner in Wales, and politician Edward Douglas-Pennant, 3rd Baron Penrhyn (1864–1927), British politician Topics referred to by the same term
Coat of arms of Simon Douglas-Pennant, 7th Baron Penrhyn Escutcheon Quarterly 1st & 4th per bend sinister Ermine and Ermines a lion rampant Or (Pennant) 2nd & 3rd grand quarters quarterly 1st & 4th Argent a man's heart Gules ensigned with an Imperial crown Proper on a chief Azure three mullets Argent 2nd & 3rd Argent three piles Gules on the outer two a mullet of the field (Douglas).
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