Thomas Penny

He is perhaps best known for being partly responsible for the Insectorum, sive, Minimorum animalium theatrum or Theatre of Insects.

[1] Thomas was the son of John Penny or Penne of Eskrigg in Gressingham, in Lancashire.

[2] He had a younger brother, Brian Penny, who was later in the service of another native of Gressingham : Edmund Scambler, bishop of Peterborough between 1561 and 1584.

[3] She died in November 1587 and was buried in the same tomb as her father in St Peter’s the Poor in London.

[5] The will was duly proved on 23 January 1589; but Brian died in August 1590, and his duties were taken on by his daughter, Elizabeth Penny, who was living with her uncle Thomas when she married John Kettlewood in November 1586.