About Margaret Pennyman
Lived 1685 – 1733 (aged 47–48). Margaret Pennyman was a British poet and writer.
Lady Margaret Pennyman born Margaret Angier (bap. 1685 – 16 June 1733) was an English poet. Her journal records her poetry, her disastrous marriage and the loss of a fortune in an economic French bubble scheme.
Life Pennyman was baptised at St Margaret's, Westminster in May 1685. Her mother Jane had been born with the name of Slater or Salter and her father was a carpenter who worked in the City of Westminster and he at one time did work for Charles II.
In 1703 she eloped, married and separated from Thomas Pennyman from Yorkshire. He had come into money when his elder brother died. Thomas was said to be the son of "Sir James Pennyman" and she had £2,000 but this did not save the marriage. by Edmund Curll noting she had died penniless. Edmund Curll is not a very reliable source. She had died on 16 June 1733 and she had been buried by her brother in the church where she was baptised.
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English poet (bap. 1685, d. 1733)
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Margaret Pennyman died on 16 June 1733.
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Margaret Pennyman was a poet and writer.
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