Thomas Pennant

thumb|Thomas Pennant Thomas Pennant (14 June OS 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. Quotes The city of Oide stands directly opposite. The author of the City of Oude Ayeen Akberry, ii. 41, says, that it was in his time the largest city in Hindoostan; he mentions it as a place of peculiar sanctity. Feristhta boasts of its existing two thousand two years before the Christian era. ‘The View of Hindoostan’(Volume 2, Page 219). as quoted in Kishore, Kunal (2016). Ayodhyā revisited. External links Category:1726 births Category:1798 deaths Category:Authors from Wales Category:Non-fiction authors from Wales Category:Academics from Wales Category:Naturalists from Wales Category:Zoologists Category:Ornithologists