English geographer, historian and oceanographer (1742–1830)
James Rennell
FRS, FRSE, FRGS
Profile engraving of James Rennell (1799)
Born
(1742-12-03)3 December 1742
Chudleigh, Devon, UK
Died
29 March 1830(1830-03-29) (aged 87)
London
Resting place
Westminster Abbey
Occupations
Surveyor
Cartographer
Historian
Employer
East India Company
Spouse
Jane Thackeray
(m. 1772–1810)
Parent
John Rennell (father)
Signature
Major James Rennell, FRS, FRSE, FRGS (3 December 1742 – 29 March 1830) was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography. Rennell produced some of the first accurate maps of Bengal at one inch to five miles as well as accurate outlines of India and served as Surveyor General of Bengal. Rennell has been called the FatherofOceanography. In 1830, he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in London.[1]
^Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002(PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
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generation of writers and thinkers. Khan translated the works of Plato, JamesRennell, Charles Baudelaire, Frantz Fanon, Dorothee Sölle into Bengali. In Bangladesh...
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1800 map by JamesRennell showing color-coded political areas, military campaigns by the British East India Company, and the lands acquired by the company...
The Nile delta at the time of Herodotus, according to JamesRennell (corresponding to the Phatnitic, to the east) and the Rashid (corresponding to notably...
Lanka to reach India' eastern coast. Eminent British geographer Major JamesRennell surveyed the region in late 18th century; he suggested that a "navigable...
Santhal Pargana area before arrival of the Santhal people. Damin-i-koh region labeled as "Country Unexplored by Europeans" (1776 map by JamesRennell)....
ISSN 0305-6244. JSTOR 20406430. Rodd, Francis JamesRennell Rodd Baron Rennell of; Rennell, Francis JamesRennell Rodd Baron (1948). British Military Administration...
channel than the one to the west of it. Eighteenth-century geographer JamesRennell referred to a former course of the Ganges north of its present channel...
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explorers of the late 18th century, including James Cook and Louis Antoine de Bougainville. JamesRennell wrote the first scientific textbooks on oceanography...
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