Thomas Pennant (27 June [O.S. 14 June] 1726 – 16 December 1798) was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole...
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up pennant or pennon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pennant may refer to: Pennon (or pennant), a narrow, tapering flag Commissioning pennant, the...
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Thomas Pennant Barton (1803 – April 5, 1869) was an American diplomat and bibliophile who is primarily remembered for the collection of books by and relating...
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Anna Blackburne (section Thomas Pennant)
York, sent her specimens of North American birds. The Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant studied these bird specimens and included them in his book Arctic Zoology...
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White's life, compiled from a mixture of his letters to other naturalists—Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington; a 'Naturalist's Calendar' (in the second edition)...
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brewing of heather-beer during the Middle Ages before the use of hops. Thomas Pennant wrote in A Tour in Scotland (1769) that on the Scottish island of Islay...
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father of Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn. He was also a distant relative of the Welsh naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant. He is buried in St...
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An 18th-century illustration of a wicker man. Engraving from A Tour in Wales written by Thomas Pennant....
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commemorates this with a "Statue of a Man looking out of a Window." Next, Thomas Pennant in Journey from Chester to London (1782) recounted: "[T]he curiosity...
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Aberbechan Hall (section Visit of Thomas Pennant)
of Richard,Lloyd,Esq. Thomas Pennant: A Tour in Wales. Bridge Books reprint, Wrexham, Vol 2, 372 1990 In 1786, Thomas Pennant, who was staying with Arthur...
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