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6 unusual facts about Thomas Pennant


Beer in Scotland

Thomas Pennant wrote in A Tour in Scotland (1769) that on the island of Islay "ale is frequently made of the young tops of heath, mixing two-thirds of that plant with one of malt, sometimes adding hops".

Milecastle 66

Milecastle 66 was seen by Thomas Pennant in 1772, when he passed through Carlisle on his way to Scotland.

Morten Thrane Brünnich

Brünnich corresponded with many foreign naturalists including Linnaeus, Peter Simon Pallas and Thomas Pennant.

Paul Mactire

In the late 18th century, the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant, toured the north of Scotland and wrote of his travels.

Samuel Pennant

He was also a distant relative of the Welsh naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant.

Wilhelm Heinrich Kramer

In this book, Kramer created the name pratincola for the Collared Pratincole which was adapted in English in the following work of Thomas Pennant (1726–1798) in 1773.


Corriechatachan

Notable visitors included Thomas Pennant, in the course of the travels that resulted in the publication of A Tour of Scotland in 1769, and Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, on their tour of the Highlands.

Whitford, Flintshire

It is best known as the former home of traveller and writer Thomas Pennant and for the visit of Paul Scholes in 2011.


see also

William P. C. Barton

The Barton Collection at Boston Public Library is named after Benjamin Smith Barton's son Thomas Pennant Barton (1803–1869), who was William Barton’s first cousin.