Thomas Rennell
English theologian and author
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Rennell was an English theologian and author. Life The only son of Thomas Rennell, Dean of Winchester Cathedral, he was born at Winchester in 1787. Like his father, he was educated at Eton, where he had a brilliant reputation as a scholar. He won one of Dr. Claudius Buchanan's prizes for a Greek Sapphic ode on the propagation of the gospel in India, and a prize for Latin verses on 'Pallentes Morbi' . He also conducted, in conjunction with three of his contemporaries, a periodical called the Miniature, a successor of the 'Microcosm'. In 1806 he was elected from Eton to King's College, Cambridge. There in 1806 he won Sir William Browne's medal for the best Greek ode on the subject 'Veris Comites'; in 1810 he published, in conjunction with Charles James Blomfield, afterwards bishop of London, Musae Cantabrigienses, and he contributed to the Museum Criticum, a journal established in 1813 by Blomfield and Monk. He graduated B.A. in 1810, M.A. in 1813, and S.T.B. in 1822.
