See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS See also:

• THOMAS PENNANT (1726-1798)

PENNANT (1726-1798)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British naturalist and See also:

• ANTIQUARY

antiquary, was descended from an old Welsh See also:

• FAMILY

family, for many generations See also:

• RESIDENT

resident at See also:

• DOWNING, SIR GEORGE

Downing, Flintshire, where he was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 14th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1726 . He received his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• EDUCATION

education at See also:

• WREXHAM (Welsh•Gwrecsam, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Wrighlesham)

Wrexham, and afterwards entered See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen's See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, but did not take a degree . At twelve years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age he was inspired with a See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion for natural See also:

• HISTORY

history through being presented with See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

Francis See also:

• WILLUGHBY, FRANCIS (1635—1672)

Willughby's See also:

• ORNITHOLOGY

Ornithology; and a tour in See also:

• CORNWALL

Cornwall in 1746–1747 awakened his strong See also:

• INTEREST

interest in minerals and fossils . In 1750 his See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of an See also:

• EARTHQUAKE

earthquake at Downing was inserted in the Philosophical Transactions, where there also appeared in 1756 a See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper on several coralloid bodies he had collected at See also:

• COALBROOKDALE

Coalbrookdale, See also:

• SHROPSHIRE (SALOP)

Shropshire . In the following See also:

• YEAR

year, at the instance of See also:

• LINNAEUS

Linnaeus, he was elected a member of the Royal Society of See also:

• UPSALA, or UPPSALA

Upsala . In 1766 he published the first See also:

• PART

part of his British See also:

• ZOOLOGY (from Gr. Nov, a living thing, and ?byos, theory)

Zoology, a See also:

• WORK

work meritorious rather as a laborious compilation than as an See also:

• ORIGINAL

original contribution to See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science . During its progress he visited the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe and made the acquaintance of See also:

• BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE (1707-1788)

Buffon, See also:

• VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE (1694–1778)

Voltaire, See also:

• HALLER, ALBRECHT VON (1708–1777)
• HALLER, BERTHOLD (1492–1536)

Haller and See also:

• PALLAS, PETER SIMON (1741–1811)

Pallas . In 1767 he was elected F.R.S . In 1771 was published his Synopsis of Quadrupeds, afterwards extended into a History of Quadrupeds . At the end of the same year he published A Tour in See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland in 1769, which proving remarkably popular was followed in 1774 by an account of another See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey in Scotland, in two volumes . These See also:

• WORKS

works have proved invaluable as preserving the See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of important antiquarian See also:

• RELICS (Lat, reliquiae, the equivalent of the English " remains " in the sense of a dead body)

relics which have now perished . In 1778 he brought out a similar Tour in See also:

• WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales, which was followed by a Journey to See also:

• SNOWDON (Wyddfa, view-place, Eryri, eagle-place)

Snowdon (pt. i .

1781; pt. ii . 1783), afterwards forming the second See also:

• VOLUME

volume of the Tour . In 1782 he published a Journey from See also:

• CHESTER
• CHESTER, EARLS OF

Chester to See also:

• LONDON

London . He brought out See also:

• ARCTIC (Gr. "ApKroc, the Bear, the northern constellation of Ursa Major)

Arctic Zoology in 1785-1787 . In 1790 appeared his Account of London, which went through a large number of See also:

• EDITIONS

editions, and three years later he published the See also:

• LITERARY

Literary See also:

• LIFE

Life of the See also:

• LATE

late T . See also:

• PENNANT, THOMAS (1726-1798)

Pennant, written by himself . In his later years he was engaged on a work entitled Outlines of the Globe, vols. i. and ii. of which appeared in 1798, and vols. iii. and iv., edited by his son See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David Pennant, in 1800 . He was also the author of a number of See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor works, some of which were published posthumously . He died at Downing on the 16th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1798 .