June 14, 1726 - December 16, 1798.
Was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.
The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century. In 1724 Thomas' father, David Pennant, also inherited the neighbouring Downing estate from a cousin, considerably augmenting the family's fortune. Downing Hall, where Thomas was born in the 'yellow room', became the main Pennant residence.
Pennant received his early education at Wrexham grammar school, before moving to Thomas Croft's school in Fulham in 1740. In 1744 entered Queen's College, Oxford, later moving to Oriel College. Like many students from a wealthy background, he left Oxford without taking a degree, although in 1771 his work as a zoologist was recognised with an honorary degree.
At the age of twelve, Pennant later recalled, he had been inspired with a passion for natural history through being presented with Francis Willughby's Ornithology. A tour in Cornwall in 1746-1747, where he met the antiquary...
1754-1820.
Ellicott, a Quaker, was raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His father was a prosperous miller whose family founded Ellicott City, Maryland in 1775. Andrew Ellicott was trained to be a mathematician and surveyor. He conducted several large surveys with David Rittenhouse, the Philadelphia astronomer, mathematician, and clockmaker. President Washington in 1791 asked Ellicott to survey the bounds of the District of Columbia. The following year Washington asked him to complete L'Enfant's plan for the city. Ellicott made some changes to L'Enfant's plan. He changed the alignment of Massachusetts Avenue, eliminated five short radial avenues, added two short radial avenues southeast and southwest of the Capitol, and named the city streets. In less than one month Ellicott had a plan ready for the engravers. A few months later Ellicott, like L'Enfant, found himself at odds with the Commissioners and resigned from the project.
Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Andrew Ellicott'.
Född 1810 7/4 i Lund, död 1876 12/10 i Jönköping.
Fanjunkare vid Södra Skånska Infanteriregementet. Gravör. Son av Peter Magnus Billman och Catharina Elisabeth Roth. Guldsmedslärling i Lund, Malmö och 1852 i Stockholm, övergick sedermera till den militära banan, som han dock lämnade 1840, då han började en ny verksamhet som kringresande gravör. »Hans yrkesfärdighet var konstnärens.» (Jönköpings Tidning 1844 13/7.)
Bland arbeten.
Utsikter, kartor, växlar, adress- och visitkort.
Hultmark, 1944.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
'Electoratus et Palatinatus Rheni' - Frederick de Wit, Pieter Mortier ca 1710.
