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James Emerson Tennent

James Tennent after 1853 Sir James Emerson Tennent, 1st Baronet, FRS (born James Emerson; 7 April 1804 – 6 March 1869) was a Conservative Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for the Irish seats of Belfast and of Lisburn, and a resident Colonial Secretary in Ceylon. Opposed to the restoration of a parliament in Dublin, his defence of Ireland's union with Great Britain emphasised what he conceived as the liberal virtues of British imperial administration. In Ceylon, his policies in support the growing plantation and wage economy met with peasant resistance in the Matale Rebellion of 1848. In recognition of his encyclopedic surveys of the colony, in 1862 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon with narratives and anecdotes : Illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptitles, fishes insects, including a monograph of the elephant and a description of the modes of capturing and training it with engravings from original drawings

    Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon with narratives and anecdotes : Illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptitles, fishes insects, including a m... by Tennent, J. Emerson

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    Sketches of the The Natural history of Ceylon

    Sketches of the The Natural history of Ceylon by Tennent, J. Emerson

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    The wild elephent and the method of capturing and taming it in Ceylon

    The wild elephent and the method of capturing and taming it in Ceylon by Tennent, J. Emerson

    Published 2002
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