Isaac Pennington

Sir Isaac Pennington (1745–1817) was an English physician, of whom there are two portraits in the National Portrait Gallery.

Sir Pennington in his ceremonial robes. Credit: Wellcome Library

See Isaac Penington (disambiguation) for other people with a similar name.

Isaac Pennington was educated at Sedbergh School and St John's College, Cambridge.^[1] From 1773 to 1817 he was physician to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and from 1793 to 1817 Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University.