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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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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St Melangell's Church (redirect from Pennant melangell)
medieval church of the Church in Wales located in the former village of Pennant Melangell, in the Tanat Valley, Powys, Wales. The church was founded around...
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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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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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Melangell (section Shrine at Pennant Melangell)
of the Gauls, meets in an Anglican parish church. Welsh antiquarian Thomas Pennant, in his 1810 work Tours in Wales, describes Melangell's association...
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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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Fisher (animal) (redirect from Pennant's marten)
pennanti honors Thomas Pennant, who described the fisher in 1771. Buffon had first described the creature in 1765, calling it a pekan. Pennant examined the...
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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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weight of approximately 5.5 pounds (2.5 kg). For instance, in 1772 Thomas Pennant described a sword seen on his visit to Raasay as: "an unwieldy weapon...
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Fairy Flag (section Thomas Pennant (1772))
Mor's Horn. In 1772, Thomas Pennant made a tour of the Hebrides and later published an account of his travels. One of the things Pennant noted while visiting...
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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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re-buried, though it is impossible to discover where he was laid." Thomas Pennant writes that Glyndŵr died on 20 September 1415 at the age of 61 (which...
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and the common prawn, Palaemon serratus, was categorised in 1777 by Thomas Pennant. The common shrimp is a small burrowing species aligned with the notion...
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Indian scops owl (category Taxa named by Thomas Pennant)
Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Strigiformes Family: Strigidae Genus: Otus Species: O. bakkamoena Binomial name Otus bakkamoena Pennant, 1769...
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Common tailorbird (category Taxa named by Thomas Pennant)
(2002). "Roosting behaviour of common tailorbird Orthotomus sutorius (Pennant)". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 99: 312–315. Neelakantan, K.K. (1976). "On...
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used as hunters, and these were said to be the last of their race. Thomas Pennant (1726–1798) reported that he could find no more than three wolfdogs...
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This is also true of the Llangernyw Yew in North Wales. Notice by Thomas Pennant, who measured the girth at 56½ feet, and noted that within living memory...
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again by church chronicles of Andreas Keczkeméty in 1739. In 1771, Thomas Pennant described the breed in his book Synopsis of Quadrupeds, writing that...
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Oriental darter (category Taxa named by Thomas Pennant)
melanogaster Pennant)". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 47 (3): 549. Bates, R.S.P. (1949). "Peculiar behaviour of the Darter (Anhinga melanogaster Pennant)". J. Bombay...
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St Beuno's Church, Bettws Cedewain (section Thomas Pennant’s visit in 1775 and John Ingleby’s watercolours)
Strata Marcella, and remained so up to the Dissolution. In July 1775 Thomas Pennant visited Bettws Cedwain with his friend Arthur Blayney of Gregynog Hall...
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the United States, but have failed to find any DNA in the material. Thomas Pennant in the 18th century believed the material to be "something vomited up...
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Grizzled giant squirrel (category Taxa named by Thomas Pennant)
macroura Pennant (1769) albipes, ceilonensis, ceylonica, macrura, montana, tennentii R. m. dandolena Thomas and Wroughton (1915) R. m. melanochra Thomas and...
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White-breasted waterhen (category Taxa named by Thomas Pennant)
"Addition to the dietary of Whitebreasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus (Pennant)". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 88 (2): 282. Mason, C...
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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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ISBN 0-7083-1145-8. Pennant, Thomas (1796). The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell. B. and J. White. Pennant, Thomas (1883) [1778]. Tours...
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continued longer in remote parts of Scotland than in the rest of the UK. Thomas Pennant wrote in A Tour in Scotland (1769) that on the island of Islay "ale...
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Sri Lanka hanging parrot (category Taxa named by Thomas Pennant)
Chordata Class: Aves Order: Psittaciformes Family: Psittaculidae Genus: Loriculus Species: L. beryllinus Binomial name Loriculus beryllinus (Pennant, 1781)...
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