James Tennant (other)
James Tennant may refer to: * James Tennant (mineralogist) (1808–1881), English mineralogist * James Tennant (RFC officer) (1896–?), Scottish World War I flying ace * James Tennant (army officer) (1789–1854), British soldier * James Francis Tennant (1829–1915), British soldier and astronomer * Jim Tennant (1907–1967), American baseball player See also

* James Tennent (1888–1955), Scottish international rugby and cricket player * James Emerson Tennent (1804–1869), Irish politician and traveller * {{hndis, Tennant, James ...
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James Tennant (mineralogist)
James Tennant (8 February 1808 – 23 February 1881) was an English mineralogist, the master of the Worshipful Company of Turners and mineralogist to Queen Victoria. Biography Tennant was born on 8 February 1808 at Upton, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire. He was the third child in a family of twelve. His father, John Tennant, was an officer in the Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; his mother, Eleanor Kitchen, came from a family of yeomen resident at Upton for more than two centuries. His parents later moved to Derby, and Tennant attended a school in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. In October 1824, Tennant was apprenticed to John Mawe, a dealer in minerals at 149 Strand in London. After Mawe's death in 1829, Tennant managed the business with Mawe's widow, Sarah Mawe, who became known as "Mineralogist to Her Majesty". He purchased Sarah's share of the business on her retirement in 1840.
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James Tennant (RFC Officer)
Lieutenant James Tennant MC (born 27 February 1896, date of death unknown) was a Scottish World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories. Military service Tennant worked in a bank in Newton Stewart Newton Stewart ( Gd: ''Baile Ùr nan Stiùbhartach'') is a former burgh town in the historical county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. The town is on the River Cree with most of the town to the west of the river, and ..., Scotland, before the war. In 1917 he was assigned to No. 20 Squadron as a gunner/observer flying the F.E.2d two-seater. He scored his first aerial victory on 9 June 1917, the same day the squadron lost Francis Cubbon and Frederick Thayre. Four days later, on 13 June, Tennant was teamed with fellow ex-bank clerk Harry Luchford; Tennant would score six victories in a row with Luchford, beginning that day and ending on 17 August 1917. References ;Notes ;Bibliography * 1896 births Year of death missing Royal Flyin ...
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James Tennant (army Officer)
Brigadier-general Sir James Tennant (21 April 1789 – 6 March 1854), colonel commandant of the Bengal Artillery, was a British army officer in the service of the East India Company. Life England and the Cape James Tennant, the second son of William Tennant, merchant of Ayr, and of his wife, the daughter of William Dalrymple, was born on 21 April 1789. He was educated at the military school at Great Marlow, and sailed as cadet of the East India Company on 31 August 1805 in the East India fleet which accompanied the expedition of Sir David Baird and Sir Home Popham to the Cape of Good Hope. The East India Company cadets and recruits under Lieutenant-colonel Wellesley of the Bengal establishment took part in the operations by which Cape Town was captured, and were usefully employed in different branches of the service.Vetch 1898, p. 61. India Tennant arrived in India on 21 Aug. 1806, and received a commission as lieutenant in the Bengal artillery antedated to 29 Ma ...
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James Francis Tennant
Lieutenant-General James Francis Tennant, (10 January 1829 – 6 March 1915) was a British soldier and astronomer. Tennant was born in Calcutta to Scottish parents. The son of Brigadier-General Sir James Tennant and Elizabeth (née Paterson), and was educated at the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe from 1845 to 1847. He began his military career with the Bengal Engineers in Calcutta in 1847. His mathematical skills landed him with the Great Trigonometric Survey where he was engaged in triangulation of the great longitudinal series until 1857, when he was diverted to garrison duties during the Indian Mutiny. In 1859, when he rejoined the survey, he was given the directorship of the Madras Observatory where his interest in astronomy started. He was noted for being an observer for the Royal Astronomical Society for the solar eclipse of 17 August 1868 across the Indian peninsula, and that of 11 December 1871 across southern India, and later the transit ...
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Jim Tennant
James McDonnell Tennant (March 3, 1907 – April 16, 1967) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He made one relief appearance for the New York Giants, on September 28, 1929, as the third of four pitchers in relief of Carl Hubbell."Jim Tennant Statistics and History"
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James Tennent
James M'William Tennent (7 September 1888 – 20 March 1955) was a Scottish international rugby and cricket player.Bath, p104 Tennent was capped twice for between 1909 and 1910. His most successful match in his international career was against at Inverleith on 22 January 1910, in which he scored three tries.Bath, p72 He also played for West of Scotland RFC West of Scotland Football Club is a rugby union club based in Milngavie, Scotland. Founded in 1865, West of Scotland are one of the oldest rugby clubs in the world, and one of the founding members of the Scottish Rugby Union. West have enjoy .... Tennent also played for the Scotland national cricket team. References ;Sources * Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Scotland Rugby Miscellany'' (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ) * Massie, Allan ''A Portrait of Scottish Rugby'' (Polygon, Edinburgh; ) See also * List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players 1888 births 1955 deaths Cricketers from Glasgow Rugb ...
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