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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Penrose, Thomas, 1769-1851 NRA: Penrose, Thomas (1769-1851) Diplomat and Churchman LBT ID: ThPenro1851 VIAF ID: 34330986 LOC ID: nr93030678 | B/BAP: 1769 DIED: 1851-02-08 |
| SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (March 1851) 317-18; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
The son of the poet of the same name. He was educated at Winchester under Warton and at
New College, Oxford; he served as the secretary to the British embassy at Florence before
becoming rector of Writtle in 1814. He collected British art, and donated the Reynolds
portrait of Thomas Warton to Oxford. | |
REFERENCES TO Thomas Penrose: William Roscoe to Angelo Fabroni, [1802?] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1:
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