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Thomas Penrose
(1769-1851)
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.
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