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'''Sir Samuel Pennant''' (died May 1750) was a Lord Mayor of London.<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-PENN-ANT-1734|title=PENNANT (and DOUGLAS-PENNANT) family, of Penrhyn, Llandygâi, Caerns.|author=Thomas Richards|access-date=16 May 2018}}</ref>

He was appointed a [[Sheriff of London]] for 1745, knighted in the same year, and then elected [[Lord Mayor of London|Lord Mayor]] for 1749 but died the following year in office, one of a large number of dignitaries and attendants afflicted by an outbreak of "gaol fever" in the courtroom of the [[Old Bailey]], which adjoined [[Newgate Prison]].<ref>Gordon, Charles [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030386662#page/n347/mode/2up The Old Bailey and Newgate] pp.331-2. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1902</ref>  There is a monument to him in the church of [[St Michael Paternoster Royal]]. He was succeeded as Lord Mayor by [[John Blachford]].

Sir Samuel's brother [[John Pennant|John]] was the father of [[Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn]]. He was also a distant relative of the Welsh naturalist and antiquarian [[Thomas Pennant]].

He is buried in [[St Michael Paternoster Royal]] with his tomb being sculpted by [[John Michael Rysbrack]].<ref>Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.338</ref>

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