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See also: PENNANT, 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 (1726-1798) , See also:British naturalist and See also:antiquary, was descended from an old Welsh See also:family, for many generations See also:resident at See also:Downing, Flintshire, where he was See also:born on the 14th of See also:June 1726. He received his See also:early See also:education at See also:Wrexham, and afterwards entered See also:Queen's See also: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 he was inspired with a See also:passion for natural See also:history through being presented with See also:Francis See also:Willughby's See also:Ornithology; and a tour in See also:Cornwall in 1746–1747 awakened his strong See also:interest in minerals and fossils. In 1750 his See also:account of an See also:earthquake at Downing was inserted in the Philosophical Transactions, where there also appeared in 1756 a See also:paper on several coralloid bodies he had collected at See also:Coalbrookdale, See also:Shropshire. In the following See also:year, at the instance of See also:Linnaeus, he was elected a member of the Royal Society of See also:Upsala. In 1766 he published the first See also:part of his British See also:Zoology, a See also:work meritorious rather as a laborious compilation than as an See also:original contribution to See also:science. During its progress he visited the See also:continent of See also:Europe and made the acquaintance of See also:Buffon, See also:Voltaire, See also:Haller and See also: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 in 1769, which proving remarkably popular was followed in 1774 by an account of another See also:journey in Scotland, in two volumes. These See also:works have proved invaluable as preserving the See also:record of important antiquarian See also:relics which have now perished. In 1778 he brought out a similar Tour in See also:Wales, which was followed by a Journey to See also:Snowdon (pt. i. 1781; pt. ii. 1783), afterwards forming the second See also: volume of the Tour. In 1782 he published a Journey from See also:Chester to See also:London. He brought out See also:Arctic Zoology in 1785-1787. In 1790 appeared his Account of London, which went through a large number of See also:editions, and three years later he published the See also:Literary See also:Life of the See also:late T. 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 Pennant, in 1800. He was also the author of a number of See also:minor works, some of which were published posthumously. He died at Downing on the 16th of See also:December 1798.
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