Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, was a British Conservative Party politician, landowner in Wales. He played a major part in the development of the Welsh slate industry.
Portrait of Edward Gordon Douglas Pennant
"Slate". Caricature by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) published in Vanity Fair in 1882.
Lord Penrhyn with a deputation of quarrymen from the Penrhyn Quarry
George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn was a British peer and landowner who played a prominent part in the Welsh slate industry as the owner of the Penrhyn Quarry in North Wales. Penr
Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
…peerage as Baron Penrhyn, of Llandegai in the County of Carnarvon. In 1868, he sacked 80 workers from Penrhyn Quarry for failing to vote for his son George Douglas-Pennant in the general election. The village of Llandygai was developed by Lord Penrhyn as a 'model village' for his estate workers, in which 'no corrupting…
Lord Penrhyn
Lord Penrhyn illustrated in Punch (6 May 1903) by Edward Tennyson Reed
Memorial to George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, in the church of St Peter & St Paul, Exton, Rutland