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...

up pennant or pennon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pennant may refer to: Pennon (or pennant), a narrow, tapering flag Commissioning pennant, the...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

An 18th-century illustration of a wicker man. Engraving from A Tour in Wales written by Thomas Pennant....

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...

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...

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...

(2002). "Roosting behaviour of common tailorbird Orthotomus sutorius (Pennant)". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 99: 312–315. Neelakantan, K.K. (1976). "On...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

again by church chronicles of Andreas Keczkeméty in 1739. In 1771, Thomas Pennant described the breed in his book Synopsis of Quadrupeds, writing that...

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...

data. The genus Otus was introduced in 1769 by the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant for the Indian scops owl (O. bakkamoena). The name is derived from the...

macroura Pennant (1769) albipes, ceilonensis, ceylonica, macrura, montana, tennentii R. m. dandolena Thomas and Wroughton (1915) R. m. melanochra Thomas and...

"Addition to the dietary of Whitebreasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus (Pennant)". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 88 (2): 282. Mason, C...

Pennant Hills is a suburb in the Northern Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Pennant Hills is located 18 kilometres north-west of the...

Grade I listed medieval church and shrine located in the former village of Pennant Melangell, in the Tanat Valley, Powys, Wales. The church was founded around...

Plegadis falcinellus (Linn.) and Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala (Pennant): two more additions to the bird list of Kerala". J. Bombay Nat. Hist....

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...

published in 1771. It is written by Thomas Pennant and illustrated by Moses Griffiths, who travelled together. Pennant set a new standard in travel literature:...

summit of Snowdon was at an elevation of 3,720 feet (1,130 m); in 1773, Thomas Pennant quoted a later estimate of 3,568 ft (1,088 m) above sea level at Caernarfon...

placed in the genus Otus that was introduced in 1769 by Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. The genus name is derived from the Latin otus meaning "eared owl"....