Thomas Pennant
✓ Source-basedrisingWelsh naturalist (1726-1798)
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Thomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall, near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wales.
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Downing Hall, Pennant's lifelong home
A young Thomas Pennant, c. 1740
"The Heron" engraved by Peter Mazell from painting by Peter Paillou, in Pennant's British Zoology
Elephant and bison, from the History of Quadrupeds (1793)
Cottage on Islay, by John Cleveley the Younger, in Pennant's A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772
A Tour in Wales, 1770, first published in 1778
Frontispiece to Arctic Zoology. Painting by Peter Paillou, engraved by Peter MazellAwards 1
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About this person
Country
United KingdomCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1726 to 1798 · aged 72
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