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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 life at his family estate, Downing Hall near Whitford, Flintshire , in Wales.
Thomas Pennant (born June 14, 1726, Downing, Flintshire, Wales—died Dec. 16, 1798, Downing) was a Welsh naturalist and traveler, one of the foremost zoologists of his time. Pennant was a landowner of independent means.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Occupation: naturalist, antiquary, traveller. Area of activity: History and Culture; Nature and Agriculture; Travel and Exploration. Author: Ellis Davies. Born 14 June 1726 at Flintshire, the son of David Pennant and Arabella (née Mytton).
The author in question, Welsh naturalist and tourist Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), was by no means a lifelong homebody. His tours of Scotland and Wales, published in the 1770s and ‘80s, were based on extensive travels in those countries, and helped establish the “domestic tour” as a fashionable pastime in eighteenth-century Britain.
The essays collected in this volume explore the crowded, multifaceted world of the Welsh naturalist, antiquarian and traveller Thomas Pennant (1726– 1798).
The Curious Travellers project explores travel and tourism in Britain and Ireland in the late C18th and early C19th. It does so through the writings of the Flintshire naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), and of others who followed in his footsteps.
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In the National Library's collections there are 8 extra-illustrated volumes of A tour in Wales by Thomas Pennant that chronicle the three journeys he made through Wales between 1773 and 1776. These volumes are unique because they were compiled for Pennant's own library at Downing.
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