Thomas Mainwaring Penson

Thomas Mainwaring Penson (1818–64) was an English architect who is credited with pioneering the revival of half-timbered (black-and-white) architecture in Chester [cite book |last=Lewis |first=C. P. |authorlink= |coauthors=A. T. Thacker (eds.) |editor=|others= |title=A History of the County of Chester: The City of Chester: General History and Topography |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=19219 |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |volume=5:1 |date= |year=2003 |month= |publisher=Victoria County History |location= |language= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=229-238 |chapter=Topography 900-1914: Victorian and Edwardian, 1840-1914 |chapterurl= |quote= ] in the 1850s. [Pevsner and Hubbard, pp. 38, 131.]

Penson was born in Oswestry and educated at Oswestry School, the younger son of Thomas Penson, architect and bridge-builder. He became County Surveyor of Cheshire and moved to Chester. [cite web |url=http://www.discovershropshire.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20070306160549 |title= Oswestry Town Trail - Willow Street|accessdate=2008-04-25 |publisher=Discovering Shropshire's History ]

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