Mary Sarah Pennington nee Sale
The name Mary Sarah Pennington is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Pere Lachaise (Pt3) cemetery, Paris, Paris, France.
There are 71 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Mary Sarah Pennington was buried in 1847. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Mary Sarah Pennington age is given as 87.
Mary Sarah Pennington calculated year of birth is 1760.
Mary Sarah Pennington is listed on the GPR grave numbered 329611.
Mary Sarah Pennington is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Mary Sarah Pennington has the record number 702342 within the GPR person name database table.
Her maiden name was Sale (to see all the others with the same maiden name, just click the name Sale).
The record was added to the GPR on 18 August 2013
There are 2 images available for the monument listing Mary Sarah Pennington (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Mary Sarah Pennington record:
Mary Sale; who died in Amiens; was the only daughter of William Michael Sale of Bledlow Ridge in Buckinghamshire; and Martha Pennington of Canterbury. She was the grand-daughter of George Sale; a distinguished English barrister and Orientalist who was the first person to translate the Koran into English; and his French Hugenot wife; Marianne d'Argent. Her uncle George Sale was a fellow of New Coll. Oxon; and her father and another uncle were talented writers. Mary Sale married in 1789 the Rev. Thomas Pennington (1762-1854); Rector (at the same time) of both Thorley in Hertfordshire; and of Kingsdown in Kent (of which he was patron). He was the nephew of the poet and letter-writer Mrs Elizabeth Carter who was an original member of the Blue-Stocking circle and a friend of Samuel Johnson; and who mentioned a Pennington nephew in her published correspondance with Mrs Montague. He had also been chaplain to the Countess of Bath (a friend of Mrs Carter); and a successful travel writer describing his tours of Europe. Her son was Thomas Sale Pennington; educated at Charterhouse and Trinity Coll.Oxon; who erected the tomb. A grand-daughter of Mary Sale and Thomas Pennington was the mother of the French WW1 general; Robert Nivelle.