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Granville Penn (9 December 1761 – 28 September 1844) was a great-grandson of Admiral Sir William Penn, a British author, and scriptural geologist . Biography. He was born 9 December 1761 in Spring Gardens, London, the second surviving son of Thomas Penn and his wife, Lady Juliana Fermor Penn, fourth daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Pomfret.
Aug 18, 2023 · Granville Penn (9 December 1761 – 28 September 1844) was a great-grandson of Admiral Sir William Penn, a British author, and scriptural geologist. Biography. He was born 9 December 1761 in Spring Gardens, London, the second surviving son of Thomas Penn and his wife, Lady Juliana Fermor, fourth daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Pomfret.
Nov 27, 2020 · Granville Penn. Born 9 Dec 1761 in Spring Gardens, Woodburn, Buckinghamshire, England. Ancestors. Son of Thomas Penn and Juliana (Fermor) Penn. Brother of William Penn, Juliana (Penn) Baker, Thomas Penn, William Penn, Louisa Hannah Penn, John Penn and Sophia Margaret Juliana (Penn) Stuart.
- Male
- December 9, 1761
- Isabella (Forbes) Penn
Jan 16, 2019 · His major work has a forbidding title: Conversations on Geology comprising a familiar exposition of the Huttonian and Wenerian System; The Mosaic Geology, as explained by Mr. Granville Penn; and the late discoveries of Professor Buckland, Humboldt. R. McCulloch, and others. The geological systems and the names testify to his geological knowledge.
Granville was also the principle heir of Philadelphia Hannah Freame [1740/1741-1826], granddaughter of William Penn [1644-1718], the founder of Pennsylvania. In 1770 Philadelphia had married the widowed Thomas Dawson [1725-1813], who in that same year was elevated to the Irish peerage, as Baron Dartry of Dawson's Grove.
Granville Penn (1761-1844) was an amateur textual critic, who intended to revise the English translation of the new Testament, and brought in evidence from Codex Vaticanus (B03) in order to support his argument.
A Forgotten Pioneer: Granville Penn and the Victory of Vaticanus. 1. Introduction: Granville Penn1. Granville Penn (1761-1844)2 was a self-made scholar who is remembered, if at all, rather as a “biblical geologist” and historiographer of his great-grand-father’s life than as a textual critic.
