BIOLOGIST

Charles Walter De Vis

1829 - 1915

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Charles Walter de Vis (9 May 1829, Birmingham, England – 30 April 1915, Brisbane, Queensland Australia) was an English zoologist, ornithologist, herpetologist, and botanist. He was born Charles Devis; he changed the spelling to De Vis about 1882. De Vis gained a BA from Magdelene College, Cambridge in 1849, became a deacon in 1852, and was rector of Breane, Somerset, from 1855 to 1859. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Walter De Vis has received more than 26,823 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Walter De Vis is the 945th most popular biologist (down from 869th in 2019), the 4,696th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,551st in 2019) and the 151st most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Walter De Vis ranks 945 out of 1,097. Before her are Thomas Pennant, Lilian Gibbs, Rudolf Schlechter, William Murrill, Nigel Marven, and Elizabeth F. Neufeld. After her are Ryuta Kawashima, Nicole Marthe Le Douarin, Irene Manton, Jan Sztolcman, Hugh Edwin Strickland, and Vladimir Sukachev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Charles Walter De Vis ranks 67. Before her are Edwin Long, Isaac Roberts, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Théodore Aubanel, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, and William Michael Rossetti. After her are Catherine Booth, Thomas Hill, and Roscoe Conkling. Among people deceased in 1915, Charles Walter De Vis ranks 118. Before her are Nikolay Umov, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, Solomon Schechter, Keir Hardie, Béla Las-Torres, and José María Campo Serrano. After her are Vasily Goncharov, W. G. Grace, Henry Roscoe, Charles Tupper, William Wallace Denslow, and John Bunny.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Walter De Vis ranks 4,696 out of 8,785. Before her are John James Shepherd (1884), Thomas Campion (1567), A. Edward Sutherland (1895), Gina McKee (1964), Charles Bradlaugh (1833), and Tom Clarke (1858). After her are Hugh Gaitskell (1906), Alex Kapranos (1972), Wilbert Awdry (1911), Matt Bellamy (1978), Douglas Hurd (1930), and Topper Headon (1955).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Walter De Vis ranks 151. Before her are Robert Wight (1796), Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761), Joseph Barcroft (1872), Thomas Pennant (1726), Lilian Gibbs (1870), and Nigel Marven (1960). After her are Irene Manton (1904), Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Alister Hardy (1896), Maxwell T. Masters (1833), William T. Stearn (1911), and Edward Lhuyd (1660).

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