John Frederick Pinney

Son of John Pretor Pinney (1740-1818) and brother of Charles Pinney (q.v.), and originally a partner in Pinney and Ames, from which he appears to have retired in 1819, thereafter living as a rentier and serving as Sheriff of Somerset in 1823. Awarded compensation as both owner and mortgagee of a number of estates in Nevis, St Kitts and St Vincent. His son William Pinney (1806-1898) was MP for Lyme Regis (1832-1842 and 1852-1865) and East Somerset (1847-1852) and left £98864 10s 1d.

1. Will of John Frederick Pinney of Somerton Erle Somerset [and of Berkeley Square] proved 22/10/1845. He left his wife Frances an annuity of £2000 p.a. (falling to £1400 p.a. if she married again) and the use of his Berkeley Square mansion house for life, after which it passed to his son William. He had settled £10,000 on his daughter Frances on her marriage to John James Smith and left her a further £4000; he said he had settled £4000 to his daughter Anna Maria, from a settlement of £23,000 of which the rest went to his son William, and then left her a further £11,000. William was the residuary heir. His children left cultural legacies in and around Somerton.

1. PROB 11/2025.