1. Clements Markham, Major James Rennell and the Rise of Modern English Geography (London: Cassell, 1895), p. 105. Such positions are fully chronicled in O’Gorman, Whig Party and French Revolution.
2. See Michael Bravo, ‘Precision and Curiosity in Scientific Travel: James Rennell and the Orientalist Geography of the New Imperial Age (1760–1830)’ in Jas Elsner and Joan-Pau Rubiés, eds, Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel (London: Reaktion, 1999), pp. 162–83. See also
3. Brian Hudson, ‘The New Geography and the New Imperialism: 1870–1918’, Antipode, 9.2 (1977), pp. 12–19.
4. Richard Drayton, ‘Knowledge and Empire’ in P.J. Marshall, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume 2: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 231–52 at p. 244.
5. See James Rennell, Journals, T.H.D. La Touche, ed., in Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 3 (1910–14) (Calcutta, 1914), pp. 95–248.