Nicholas Penny (priest)
The Very Rev Nicholas Penny (18 September 1674 – 18 January 1745) was Dean of Lichfield from 1730[1][2] until his death.[3]
Penny was born in St Dunstan-in-the-West, City of London and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.[4] He held livings at Hardwick, Cambridgeshire, Hickling, Nottinghamshire and Beddington, Surrey. He died in Beddington in 1745.
References
- "The Present State of Great Britain and Ireland" Miege, G p66: London, J.Brotherton, 1738
- University of Reading
- "Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857- Volume 10, Coventry and Lichfield Diocese" Deans of Lichfield, Pages 5-8: Institute of Historical Research, London, 2003
- Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209-1752 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, 1924) p322
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| Preceded by William Walmesley |
Dean of Lichfield 1730 –1745 |
Succeeded by John Addenbrooke |
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