Sir William Pennyman, 1st Baronet

He was the illegitimate son of William Pennyman (died 1628) a Clerk in Chancery and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Inner Temple.

His father purchased a third of the Manor of Marske, Yorkshire, in present-day Redcar and Cleveland, in 1616.

[1] His wife was also the granddaughter of Sir John Byron, whose daughter Ann married into the Atherton's.

He was a supporter of King Charles I and served as a member of the Council of the North and as an officer of the Star Chamber.

He died at Oxford of the plague in 1643 and the manor passed to his half-brother James, who was made 1st Baronet Pennyman of Ormesby in 1664.