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Thomas Penson or Thomas Penson the younger (c. 1790–1859) was the county surveyor of Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire. An innovative architect and designer of a number of masonry arch bridges over the River Severn and elsewhere. He was the son of Thomas Penson the older (c. 1760-1824) who had been the county surveyor for Flintshire from 1810–14 but had been dismissed when the bridge at Overton-on-Dee collapsed. Thomas Penson the younger completed its replacement.
