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  Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC (9 November 1858– 26 July 1941), known as Sir Rennell Rodd before 1933, was a British diplomat, poet and politician.
Rodd was the only son of Major James Rennell Rodd (1812-1892) and his wife Elizabeth Thomson, daughter of Anthony Todd Thomson.
Lord Rennell died in July 1941, aged 82, and was succeeded in the barony by his second but eldest surviving son Francis James Rennell Rodd, who later served as President of the Royal Geographical Society.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rennell_Rodd   (551 words)

  
 James Rennell - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
JAMES RENNELL (1742-1830), British geographer, was born on the 3rd of December 1742, near Chudleigh in Devonshire.
He died on the 29th of March 1830, and was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey.
See Sir Clements Markham, Major James Rennell and the Rise of Modern English Geography (London, 1895).
www.1911encyclopedia.org /James_Rennell   (287 words)

  
 Major James Rennell, FRS (1742-1830)
James Rennell "was the founder of oceanography: that branch of geographical science which deals with the ocean, its winds and currents".
Rennell's memoir on the Agulhas current (as it is now known) was published in 1778, and was the "very first contribution to the science of oceanography", writes Markham, so that James Rennell "was the father of oceanography".
Rennell returned to his hydrographic work in 1810 at the age of 68, and it occupied him for the last twenty years of his life.
www.noc.ac.uk /JRD/history/rennell.php   (969 words)

  
 BANGLAPEDIA: Rennell, James   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Originally, Rennell was employed for only surveying the Ganges delta with the special objective of finding a shorter passage suitable for large vessels from the Ganges to Calcutta, than that through the sundarbans and the Meghna.
Rennell records in his journal that in course of his explorations he was attacked by tigers, reptiles, dacoits and hostile people many times.
James Rennell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1781.
banglapedia.org /HT/R_0177.HTM   (580 words)

  
 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1210 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
James Rennell RODD was born 9 Nov 1858.
Francis James Rennell RODD was born 25 Oct 1895.
Gustaf Guthrie Rennell RODD was born 13 Jul 1905.
www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg1210.htm   (241 words)

  
 James Rennell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Major James Rennell F.R.S. December 3, 1742 - March 29, 1830) was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.
Amazing is the accuracy of the marine currents and winds in contrast to the nearly phantasylike depiction of the inner parts of Africa (unknown to the Europeans until 1877).
Beside his geographical and historical works James Rennell is known today for his hydrographical works about the currents in the Atlantic and Indian ocean.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Rennell   (678 words)

  
 Biography for: James Rennell Rodd
James Rennell Rodd was the 1st Baron Rennell, a poet, a diplomat and an amateur painter and archaeologist.
Rodd was the only son of Major James Rennell Rodd and his wife Elizabeth Anne, the third daughter of Dr Anthony Todd Thomson.
Rodd married Lilias Georgina, who died in 1951, and was the fifth daughter of James Alexander Guthrie, in 1894.
www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Rodd_R.htm   (486 words)

  
 BANGLAPEDIA: Rennell's Atlas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rennell's Atlas one of the earliest atlases of Bengal and its adjoining areas.
To facilitate commercial navigation, the East India Company's surveyor and engineer james rennell was assigned to conduct a survey of the Bengal river system and prepare their maps.
In a word, Rennell's map is a compendium of the river course history of the Bengal delta and its geomorphological changes as well.
banglapedia.org /HT/R_0178.HTM   (452 words)

  
 Mapping the Maps : 1700 - 1800AD
Rennell’s famous Map of India is published and this becomes the starting point in map-making by the Indian Government.
The "Father of Indian Geography", James Rennell, as Surveyor General of Bengal, collected together the geographical data acquired by the British Army columns on their campaign and began to map all of India in 1765, subdividing India according to the Mughal provinces (subas) as defined under Emperor Akbar (reigned 1555-1605).
The title of Rennell’s memoirs explicitly equated India with the Mughal Empire - Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan; or the Mogul Empire, although the maps presented the entire subcontinent, usually referred by him as ‘India’.
www.gisdevelopment.net /history/1700-1800.htm   (626 words)

  
 rennell
During the first quarter of the 19th century, the British admiralty office collected a large amount of information about ocean currents and James Rennell, the leading geographer in England, was given the task of compiling and collecting the data.
He combined the results on large charts of the ocean which were the admiration of the day, and also wrote a volume entitled "An Investigation of the Subject of the Currents of the Atlantic Ocean." He died in 1830 before its completion, but it was published posthumously by his daughter Jane Rodd in 1832.
Rennell's final work mentions the meandering of the Gulf Stream and discusses the formation of large eddies with cold cores.
fermi.jhuapl.edu /student/phillips/rennell.htm   (257 words)

  
 "CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE" Abstracts Q-Z
James Rennell (1742-1830) who, as an ensign in the Royal Navy during the 7-years war had picked up the rudiments of coastal and harbour surveying, and subsequently as an interloper in the South-east Asian country trade had gained a deep knowledge of trade routes, got himself engaged for the task.
This paper presents the way Rennell, using his marine and commercial skills, translates indigenous revenue statistics, route tables and accounts of military displacements on the one hand, and the East India Company’s needs on the other, into the “first” unified map of the Indian subcontinent, published in 1783.
Through this presentation which is at complete odds with the normal centre-periphery trajectory that underlies most stories of the circulation of science, the paper also engages with current debates on the nature of the encounter and interaction of British and indigenous “information orders” and their contribution to the emergence of metropolitan and colonial scientific institutions.
www.unh.edu /history/golinski/Halifax4.htm   (11278 words)

  
 Kubla Khan Sources--Rennell
If Coleridge did read Rennell, he may have come across the following description of Kashmir, making it seem like a holy land, because of the romantic beauty of the fertile valley, encircled with steep mountains, with a river opening a path through it, and a garden in perpetual spring, with surprising fountains.
As described by Rennell, this constellation of pictures may have appealed to Coleridge, if he read the text, reinforcing similar descriptions of Kashmir in Maurice, and other writers' descriptions of the source of the Nile.
And the landscape of the deep romantic vale of Cashmere and the landscape of the valley of the upper Nile seem to have melted into one another in the dream, and the enchanted territory of the poem becomes "holy land."...
www.webwritingthatworks.com /DXanSOURCE13Rennell.htm   (536 words)

  
 Notes - "Sporting Sketches" - Electronic Editions - Romantic Circles
Rennell writes: "Delhi, the nominal capital of Hindostan at present, and the actual capital during the greatest part of the time since the Mohamedan conquest" (65).
Rennell's history provides a brief account of this "Caliph Valid" (xliv); Dow's refers, somewhat enigmatically, to a "Chaled," descendent of "Osman" (I.34, 36); this may be the same person.
Rennell also identifies "Mahmood," the son of "Subactagi" (xliv)—the rulers to whom Williams apparently refers in this passage.
www.rc.umd.edu /editions/sketches/sketches_notes.html   (1997 words)

  
 ۞ James Rennell - Infos und Erklärungen auf Wissen.wisoToday.de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rennells wichtigster wissenschaftlicher Beitrag sind jedoch seine hydrographischen Arbeiten, in denen er den Verlauf der Meeresströmungen und Winde des Atlantischen und des Indischen Ozeans untersuchte.
James Rennell hat in seinem Buch "On the Geography of Herodotus" eine durchschnittliche Fahrtzeit von vier Monaten für die Strecke von London nach Bombay angegeben, wenn moderne Schiffe des späten 18.
Rennell, Francis James Rennell R Rennell of Rodd British Military Administration of Occupied Territories in Africa: During the Years of 1941-1947 (Greenwood Press)
wissen.wisotoday.de /James_Rennell   (1024 words)

  
 Oceanography - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Early exploration of the oceans was limited to its surfaces and the few creatures that fishermen brought up in nets, but when Bougainville and Cook carried out their explorations in the South Pacific, the seas themselves formed part of the reports.
James Rennell wrote the first scientific textbooks about currents in the Atlantic and Indian ocean during the late 18th and at the beginning of 19th century.
Sir James Clark Ross took the first modern sounding in deep sea in 1840, and Charles Darwin published a paper on reefs and the formation of atolls, but the existence of the steep slope beyond the continental shelves was not discovered until 1849.
www.startsurfing.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/o/c/e/Oceanography.html   (586 words)

  
 Rennell, James - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
RENNELL, JAMES [Rennell, James] 1742-1830, English cartographer, geographer, and oceanographer.
He was a pioneer in the scientific study of winds and of ocean currents.
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www.freeencyclopedia.com /html/R/Rennell.asp   (360 words)

  
 Kubla Khan Sources--Bruce
James Bruce spent years trying to discover the true source of the Nile, and, convinced he had discovered the fountain from which the sacred river flowed, returned to Britain to write a poetic description of his travels through Africa.
The verbal parallels are suggestive, but more than individual words, we see similar plots and characters, so the mind moves through the landscapes again and again, noticing or recalling the same constellation of images.
Source: James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773.
www.webwritingthatworks.com /DXanSOURCE03Bruce.htm   (1961 words)

  
 Rennell, James (Nuttall Encyclopædia)
/ · 1907 Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge · R · Rennell, James
Rennell, James, geographer, born near Chudleigh, Devonshire; passed from the navy to the military service of the East India Company; became surveyor-general of Bengal; retired in 1782; author of many works on the topography of India, hydrography, andc.; the “Geographical System of Herodotus Examined and Explained” is his most noted work (1742-1830).
The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
www.fromoldbooks.org /Wood-NuttallEncyclopaedia/r/rennelljames.html   (101 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Sir Charles Murray Marling and others
She married Commander Gustaf Guthrie Rennell Rodd, son of James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell and Lilias Georgina Guthrie, on 15 May 1948.
She married John Adrian Tremaynw Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell, son of Commander Gustaf Guthrie Rennell Rodd and Yvonne Mary Marling, on 3 May 1977.
She is the daughter of James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell and Lilias Georgina Guthrie.
www.thepeerage.com /p9475.htm   (358 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Mary Elizabeth Jill Rodd and others
She is the daughter of Sir Francis James Rennell Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell and Hon.
She married Sir Francis James Rennell Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell, son of James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell and Lilias Georgina Guthrie, on 3 August 1928.
She married Commander Gustaf Guthrie Rennell Rodd, son of James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell and Lilias Georgina Guthrie, on 6 December 1932.
www.thepeerage.com /p9474.htm   (681 words)

  
 James Rennell - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
James Rennell - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Major James Rennell F.R.S. December 3, 1742 - March 29, 1830) was a British geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.
Despite there was a stopover in St. Helena, where his daughter was born, the voyage has endured already six months until the arrival on that island in october 1777.
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 Resources on East Rennell academic institutions
James Rennell's Memoir of a Map of Hindustan or the Mughal Empire...
Rennell and Bellona (Endemic Birds Areas of the world): Their nearest neighbours are Guadalcanal (part of EBA 198) and Makira (EBA 198),c.200 km to the north-east.
Rennell Island: January 29-30, 1943:...when she operated in the Caribbean and along the east coast.
www.mongabay.org /conservation/East_Rennell.htm   (2557 words)

  
 James Rennell
Der Artikel James Rennell gehört zur Kategorie: Geograph, Historiker, Ozeanograph, Geboren 1742, Gestorben 1830
James Rennell war der Sohn eines britischen Artillerie-Offiziers, der kurz nach der Geburt seines Sohnes im Kampf getötet wurde.
Von Rennell erstellte Karte der Meeresströmungen der Ozeane um Afrika (1799).
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 PALAZZO ROCCANERA: PALAZZO ANTICI-MATTEI
It might be worth considering James' interest in the occult and the supernatural when weighing his choice of name for the Osmonds' Palazzo.
SIR JAMES RENNELL RODD, G.C.B. A few of the great Roman ladies, such as the Duchess Massimo, the gracious Princess of Venosa, and the Marchesa Pallavicini, still held their weekly receptions, and an after-glow of the old stately life was then still perceptible.
It was one of the less agreeable experiences of the American Ambassador to be occasionally invoked as an arbitrator in their domestic differences, and it was then that George Meyer's imperturbable calm and common-sense stood him in good stead.
www.mtsn.org.uk /cer/henry_james/PalazzoRoccanera.htm   (746 words)

  
 James Rennell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
James Rennell (de diciembre el 3 de 1742 - de marcha la 29 de 1830) era un geographer británico.
Rennell fue llevado cerca de Chudleigh en el devon.
English version: James Rennell Next: Alexander McDonnell Up
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Rennell
Rennell, James 1742-1830, English cartographer, geographer, and oceanographer.
The Tuaregs traditionally maintained a feudal system consisting of a small number of noble families, a large majority of vassals, and a lower
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Rennell" at HighBeam.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for map
He traveled with Mercator in 1560 and was thus inspired to begin his chief work, Theatrum orbis terrarum (1570), the first modern atlas of the
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill 1834-1903, American painter, etcher, wit, and eccentric, b.
Whistler was dismissed from West Point for insufficient knowledge of chemistry and from the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, where he had learned etching and map engraving, for erratic attendance.
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 Physical and biological mechanisms for planetary waves observed in satellite-derived chlorophyll
James Rennell Division for Ocean Circulation and Climate, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK Paolo Cipollini
James Rennell Division for Ocean Circulation and Climate, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK Mete Uz Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
James Rennell Division for Ocean Circulation and Climate, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK Abstract
www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2004/2003JC001768.shtml   (394 words)

  
 Edney: Mapping an Empire: Bibliography
Herbert, James D. On the Present System of Survey, by which the Revenue Maps of Villages are Prepared; with an Account of a Preferable Method Proposed to be Substituted for it, as Conducive equally to Superior Accuracy, Economy, and Dispatch.
James Rennell's Memoir of a Map of Hindustan or the Mughal Empire and His Bengal Atlas.
Baker, J. "Major James Rennell, 1742-1830, and his Place in the History of Geography." In The History of Geography (Oxford, 1963), 130-57.
www.usm.maine.edu /~maps/edney/indiabib.html   (8567 words)

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