John Penny
Template:Short description Template:For Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English John Penny (died 1520) was an English priest, successively Bishop of Bangor, 1504–1508, and Bishop of Carlisle, 1508–1520. He was also Prior to Bradley Priory 1503–1508.
Career
His education is uncertain, though he may have been educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later received his LLD from the University of Cambridge.<ref name=dnb>T. Y. Cocks, ‘Penny, John (d. 1520)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004</ref><ref>Template:Acad</ref> He is first recorded as a canon of Leicester Abbey in 1477. From 1496–1509 he was Abbot of Leicester and in around 1500 built the boundary wall, Abbot Penny's Wall, which is now named after him.<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
In 1520, Penny died at Leicester Abbey, where he had earlier been the abbot, and was buried at St Margaret's Church in Leicester. The church contains his alabaster effigy, although the rest of the tomb was replaced in 1846.<ref name=dnb/>
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