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Penrhyn Castle (Welsh: Castell Penrhyn) is a country house in Llandygai, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, constructed in the style of a Norman castle. The Penrhyn estate was founded by Ednyfed Fychan . In the 15th century his descendant Gwilym ap Griffith built a fortified manor house on the site.
The PQR ran close to Penrhyn Castle, and when the castle was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1951 a small museum of industrial railway relics was created in the stable block. The first locomotive donated to the museum was Charles, one of the three remaining steam locomotives working on the PQR. Over the years a number of other historically ...
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 .
William Griffith (1480–1545) of Penrhyn Castle was a Welsh politician. He was knighted at Touraine in 1513 [1] [2] and was Chamberlain of North Wales in 1520. [2] [3] He was with Henry VIII of England at the Sieges of Boulogne (1544–46). [1]
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.
The Penrhyn Quarry Railway Society [33] is no longer involved with the team carrying out the restoration work, but continues to record and document the history of the railway. The rebuilding of the line, overseen by PQR Engineering Ltd and the operating company Penrhyn Rail Ltd, [34] - was supported by the Penrhyn Railway Supporters, formed in ...
Penrhyn is a Welsh word meaning 'headland' that may refer to: Baron Penrhyn, a title of peerage; Penrhyn Bay, a small town on the North Wales coast; Penrhyn Castle, a country house in North Wales Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum; Penrhyn (atoll), in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific; Penrhyn, Ipswich, a heritage-listed house in Queensland ...
George Hay Dawkins was born on 20 February 1764 in Penrhyn Castle, Llandygai. He was the second son of politician Henry Dawkins, who owned slave plantations in the British colony of Jamaica, and his wife Lady Juliana Colyear. In 1807, Dawkins married Sophia Mary Maude, the daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden.