Rosalind Johnson has informed Eye that Richard Pennant (24 November) was an anti-abolitionist, slave-owning MP for Liverpool, but not in the late nineteenth century. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he became one of the two MPs for Liverpool in 1767. He was re-elected in 1768 and 1774. In 1780 he was defeated at Liverpool, but was elected again in 1784. He withdrew as a candidate in 1790, and died in 1808.