| Last name | Penington |
| First name | Edward |
| Display name | Edward Penington |
| Birth date | 1726 |
| Death date | 1796 |
| Gender | m |
| Affiliations | Society of Friends |
| Bio notes | Phila. Quaker merchant. Son of Isaac Penington and Ann Biles Penington; m. Sarah Shoemaker at Bank Mtg. (1754). Member, Pa. Assembly (1761); judge, Court of Common Pleas (1761); member, Am. Philosophical Soc. (1768); manager, Pa. Hospital (1773-79); city councillor (1790). Exiled to Va. (1777). |