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Isaac Penington (1616–1679) was one of the early members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England. He wrote about the Quaker movement and was an influential promoter and defender of it.
Sir Isaac Pennington (1745–1817) was an English physician, of whom there are two portraits in the National Portrait Gallery . Isaac Pennington was educated at Sedbergh School and St John's College, Cambridge. [1] From 1773 to 1817 he was physician to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and from 1793 to 1817 Regius Professor of Physic at ...
Sir Isaac Penington [1] (c. 1584 – 16 December 1661) [2] was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1642 and a prominent member of Oliver Cromwell 's government.
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John Reeve's correspondence with Isaac Pennington is far more measured and persuasive and, from a Muggletonian perspective, the last word had already been written long before in Laurence Clarkson's definitive The Quakers Downfall (1659).
Pennington reached Adams County, Pennsylvania, where he was taken in by the Quakers William and Phoebe Wright. They assisted the fugitive from slavery, and paid him wages for his work. As Pennington was illiterate, Wright began to teach him to read and write. Pennington adopted the middle name "William" after his benefactor, and the surname "Pennington," after Isaac Penington, an English man ...
Isaac Penington (or Pennington) may refer to: Isaac Penington (Lord Mayor) (1584–1661), Lord Mayor of London. Isaac Penington (Quaker) (1616–1679), early Quaker, son of Isaac Penington above. Isaac Pennington (1745–1817), British physician.
Alderman Isaac Pennington was one of his parishioners, ... Works. Goodwin published (besides works already mentioned): The Saints' Interest in God, 1640.