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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Rennell    
First Name(s)  James    
Birth Year  1742    
Death Year  1830    
Entry  Son of John Rennell, Captain R.A. : born in 1742 : first entered the Naval service, and in 1760 served in India, but left the Navy, entered the E. I. Co.'s marine service, and was appointed Surveyor- General of Bengal in 1764. He surveyed Bengal, was made Major of the Bengal Engineers in 1776, retired in 1777 : his Bengal Atlas was published in 1779 : F.R.S. in 1781 ; corresponded largely with men of learning, and was visited by travellers. He published his Memoir and Map of Hindostan, 1783 : Observations on the Topography of the Plain of Troy : memoirs on the Geography of Africa, the Geographical System of Herodotus explained, The Marks of the British Army in the Peninsula of India. He was ""the father of Indian geography"": for years the chief of British geographers, and constantly consulted : was gold medallist of the Royal Society of Literature, 1825 : died March 29, 1830, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.     
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