RENNELL, JAMES (1742-1830)

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RENNELL, JAMES (1742-1830) , British geographer, was born on the 3rd of December 1742, near Chudleigh in Devonshire. His father, an officer in the Artillery, was killed in action shortly after the

birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

of his son. He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1756, and was present at the attack on Cherbourg (1758), and the disastrous action of St Cast in the same year. At the end of the Seven Years' War, seeing no chance of pro-motion, he entered' the service of the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

India Company, and was appointed surveyor of the Company's dominions in Bengal (1764), with the rank of captain in the Bengal Engineers. To this

work

WORK

he devoted the next thirteen years. In 1766 he received a severe wound in an encounter with some Sannyasis, or religious fanatics, from which he never thoroughly recovered; and in 1777 he retired as major on a pension of 600 a year. The remaining fifty-three years of his life were spent in London, and were devoted to geographical research chiefly among the materials in the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

India

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

. His most valuable works include the Bengal Atlas (1779), the first approximately correct map of India (1783), the Geographical System of Herodotus (1800), the Comparative Geography of Western

Asia

ASIA

(1831), and important studies on the geography of northern Africain introductions to the Travels of Mungo Park and Hornemannand the currents of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. He also contributed papers to Archaeologia on the site of Babylon, the

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

of St Paul's shipwreck, and the landing-place of Caesar in Britain. He was elected F.R.S. in 1781; and he received the Copley medal of the Royal Society in 1791, and the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1825. While in India he had married (1772) Jane Thackeray, a

great

GREAT

-aunt of the novelist. He died on the 29th of

March

183o, and was buried in the

nave

NAVE

of Westminster Abbey.
See Sir Clements Markham Major James Rennell and the Rise of Modern English Geography ( ondon, 1895).

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