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| ⚫ | '''Thomas Penny''' (1532 – January 1589) was an [[English people|English]] [[physician]] and early [[entomologist]]. His solo works have not survived and he is primarily known through quotations from other sixteenth |
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[[File:Thomas Penny 1600.jpg|thumb|Engraving by William Rogers, c. 1600]] |
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| ⚫ | '''Thomas Penny''' (1532 – January 1589) was an [[English people|English]] [[physician]] and early [[entomologist]]. His solo works have not survived and he is primarily known through quotations from other sixteenth-century biologists. It is believed that he broke with [[Aristotle]] on classification of [[caterpillars]]. He was also a Puritan and as such kept a low profile during the reign of Queen [[Mary I of England]]. He is perhaps best known for being partly responsible for the ''Insectorum, sive, Minimorum animalium theatrum'' or ''Theatre of Insects''. This work was written jointly by [[Conrad Gessner]] (posthumously), [[Edward Wotton (zoologist)|Edward Edward Wotton]], [[Thomas Muffet]], and Thomas Penny.<ref>[http://www.britarch.ac.uk/lahs/PENNyart.htm Thomas Penny the first English Entomologist by W. T. W. Potts and L. Fear. article at the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society]</ref> |
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Thomas was the son of John Penny or Penne of Eskrigg in [[Gressingham]], in Lancashire.<ref>W. C. Metcalfe, ed. ''The Visitations of Northamptonshire Made in 1564 and 1618/19'' (1887 @ [http://Internet%20Archivehttps://archive.org/details/visitationsofnor00harvrich/page/125/mode/1up?q=penny Internet Archive]), p. 125.</ref> He had a younger brother, Brian Penny, who was later in the service of another native of Gressingham : [[Edmund Scambler]], bishop of Peterborough between 1561 and 1584. Thomas Penny also had two sisters : Anne Penny, who married Rowland Atkinson of Gressingham; and Maud Penny, who married William Dickenson, vicar of [[Elton, Cambridgeshire|Elton]], in Huntingdonshire, seven miles south-west of [[Peterborough]], where Brian Penny owned a farm. Thomas Penny married Margaret Lucas, the daughter of John Lucas (d. 1556) of St John’s in [[Colchester]], Essex, formerly one of the Masters of Requests to Edward VI.<ref>D. F. Coros, 'LUCAS, John (by 1512-56), of the Inner Temple, London and Colchester, Essex', in : History of Parliament ([https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/lucas-john-1512-56 HOP]).</ref> She died in November 1587 and was buried in the same tomb as her father in St Peter’s the Poor in London.<ref>J. Strype, ''A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster'' (1720 @ [https://www.dhi.ac.uk/strype/index.jsp DHI]).</ref> On 4 June 1588, Thomas Penny made his will, naming his brother Brian as his executor.<ref>The National Archive (TNA) PROB 11/71/213.</ref> The will was duly proved on 23 January 1589; but Brian died in August 1590, and his duties were taken on by his daughter, Elizabeth Penny, who was living with her uncle Thomas when she married John Kettlewood in November 1586.<ref>J. Foster, ed. ''London Marriage Licences 1521-1869'' (1887 @ [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xf8cAAAAYAAJ&q=kettlewood Google Books]), p. 789</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Penny was [[asthma|asthmatic]] and self-medicated with a concoction of crushed [[woodlice]] mixed with wine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.addisonembroideryatthevicarage.co.uk/2012/10/19/embroidered-elizabethan-jacket-animals-birds-insects/ |title=Embroidered Elizabethan Jacket: insects and early entomologists |publisher=Addison Embroidery at the Vicarage |date=19 October 2012 |accessdate=6 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Charles E. |last=Raven |author-link=Charles E. Raven |title=English Naturalists from Neckam to Ray: A Study of the Making of the Modern World |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=31 October 2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kzcfhNPLFSAC&pg=PA117 |page=171 |isbn=978-11080-163-46}}</ref> |
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== References == |
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==Further reading== |
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*D. E. Allen, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21883 ‘Penny, Thomas (c.1530–1589)’], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 |
*D. E. Allen, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21883 ‘Penny, Thomas (c.1530–1589)’], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 |
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Latest revision as of 10:59, 29 January 2024
Thomas Penny (1532 – January 1589) was an English physician and early entomologist. His solo works have not survived and he is primarily known through quotations from other sixteenth-century biologists. It is believed that he broke with Aristotle on classification of caterpillars. He was also a Puritan and as such kept a low profile during the reign of Queen Mary I of England. He is perhaps best known for being partly responsible for the Insectorum, sive, Minimorum animalium theatrum or Theatre of Insects. This work was written jointly by Conrad Gessner (posthumously), Edward Edward Wotton, Thomas Muffet, and Thomas Penny.[1]
Family
[edit]Thomas was the son of John Penny or Penne of Eskrigg in Gressingham, in Lancashire.[2] He had a younger brother, Brian Penny, who was later in the service of another native of Gressingham : Edmund Scambler, bishop of Peterborough between 1561 and 1584. Thomas Penny also had two sisters : Anne Penny, who married Rowland Atkinson of Gressingham; and Maud Penny, who married William Dickenson, vicar of Elton, in Huntingdonshire, seven miles south-west of Peterborough, where Brian Penny owned a farm. Thomas Penny married Margaret Lucas, the daughter of John Lucas (d. 1556) of St John’s in Colchester, Essex, formerly one of the Masters of Requests to Edward VI.[3] She died in November 1587 and was buried in the same tomb as her father in St Peter’s the Poor in London.[4] On 4 June 1588, Thomas Penny made his will, naming his brother Brian as his executor.[5] The will was duly proved on 23 January 1589; but Brian died in August 1590, and his duties were taken on by his daughter, Elizabeth Penny, who was living with her uncle Thomas when she married John Kettlewood in November 1586.[6]
Penny was asthmatic and self-medicated with a concoction of crushed woodlice mixed with wine.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ Thomas Penny the first English Entomologist by W. T. W. Potts and L. Fear. article at the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society
- ^ W. C. Metcalfe, ed. The Visitations of Northamptonshire Made in 1564 and 1618/19 (1887 @ Internet Archive), p. 125.
- ^ D. F. Coros, 'LUCAS, John (by 1512-56), of the Inner Temple, London and Colchester, Essex', in : History of Parliament (HOP).
- ^ J. Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster (1720 @ DHI).
- ^ The National Archive (TNA) PROB 11/71/213.
- ^ J. Foster, ed. London Marriage Licences 1521-1869 (1887 @ Google Books), p. 789
- ^ "Embroidered Elizabethan Jacket: insects and early entomologists". Addison Embroidery at the Vicarage. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ Raven, Charles E. (31 October 2010). English Naturalists from Neckam to Ray: A Study of the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-11080-163-46.
Further reading
[edit]- D. E. Allen, ‘Penny, Thomas (c.1530–1589)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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