Sir James Pennyman, 6th Baronet

Sir James Pennyman, 6th Baronet (1736–1808) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 26 years from 1770 to 1796.

He was educated at Westminster School in 1749, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1756.

[2][3] Pennyman was elected Member of Parliament for Scarborough at a by-election on 27 November 1770.

Pennyman employed the future Methodist leader Elizabeth Rhodes during the later 1770s as a governess to his daughter.

[citation needed] His first wife, Lady Pennyman (who died only a few weeks before his second marriage), is buried in Dawlish parish church with a monument by John Flaxman.