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See also:RENNELL, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1742-1830) , See also:British geographer, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:December 1742, near Chudleigh in See also:Devonshire. His See also:father, an officer in the See also:Artillery, was killed in See also:action shortly after the See also:birth of his son. He entered the See also:navy as a See also:midshipman in 1756, and was See also:present at the attack on See also:Cherbourg (1758), and the disastrous action of St See also:Cast in the same See also:year. At the end of the Seven Years' See also:War, seeing no See also:chance of See also:pro-See also:motion, he entered' the service of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company, and was appointed surveyor of the Company's dominions in See also:Bengal (1764), with the See also:rank of See also:captain in the Bengal See also:Engineers. To this See also:work he devoted the next thirteen years. In 1766 he received a severe See also:wound in an encounter with some Sannyasis, or religious fanatics, from which he never thoroughly recovered; and in 1777 he retired as See also:major on a See also:pension of £600 a year. The remaining fifty-three years of his See also:life were spent in See also:London, and were devoted to See also:geographical See also:research chiefly among the materials in the East India See also:House. His most valuable See also:works include the Bengal See also:Atlas (1779), the first approximately correct See also:map of India (1783), the Geographical See also:System of See also:Herodotus (1800), the See also:Comparative See also:Geography of Western See also:Asia (1831), and important studies on the geography of See also:northern See also:Africa—in introductions to the Travels of Mungo See also:Park and See also:Hornemann—and the currents of the See also:Atlantic and See also:Indian Oceans. He also contributed papers to Archaeologia on the site of See also:Babylon, the See also:island of St See also:Paul's shipwreck, and the landing-See also:place of See also:Caesar in See also:Britain. He was elected F.R.S. in 1781; and he received the See also:Copley See also:medal of the Royal Society in 1791, and the See also:gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1825. While in India he had married (1772) Jane See also:Thackeray, a See also:great-aunt of the novelist. He died on the 29th of See also:March 183o, and was buried in the See also:nave of See also:Westminster See also:Abbey.
See See also:Sir Clements See also:Markham Major James Rennell and the Rise of See also:Modern See also:English Geography ( ondon, 1895).
End of Article: RENNELL, JAMES (1742-1830)
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