BIOLOGIST

Daniel Oliver

1830 - 1916

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Daniel Oliver, FRS (6 February 1830, Newcastle upon Tyne – 21 December 1916) was an English botanist. He was Librarian of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1860 to 1890 and Keeper there from 1864 to 1890, and Professor of Botany at University College, London from 1861 to 1888. In 1864, while at UCL, he published Lessons in Elementary Botany, based upon material left in manuscript by John Stevens Henslow, and illustrated by Henslow's daughter, Anne Henslow Barnard of Cheltenham. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Oliver has received more than 18,931 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Daniel Oliver is the 852nd most popular biologist (down from 737th in 2019), the 4,132nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,680th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Daniel Oliver ranks 852 out of 1,097. Before him are D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Tadas Ivanauskas, Édouard Ménétries, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Robert Ridgway, and Anne McLaren. After him are Joshua Brookes, William Kirby, John Torrey, William John Swainson, C. B. van Niel, and Johannes Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Daniel Oliver ranks 64. Before him are James G. Blaine, Charles Wyville Thomson, Peter Arnold Heise, Karolina Světlá, Jaroslav Čermák, and Viktor Madarász. After him are Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen, Lina Morgenstern, Henry Bird, John Moresby, Emily Davies, and Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual. Among people deceased in 1916, Daniel Oliver ranks 137. Before him are Alfred Cogniaux, Gorch Fock, Guido Romano, Lorenzo Latorre, Mary Everest Boole, and Joseph Jacobs. After him are Aeneas Mackintosh, Oskar Gripenberg, Guido Gozzano, Hermann Martens, Béla Békessy, and Jørgen Pedersen Gram.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Daniel Oliver ranks 4,132 out of 8,785. Before him are Carol Thatcher (1953), John Clare (1793), Clarence Kingsbury (1882), Dan Houser (1974), Richard Price (1723), and Anne McLaren (1927). After him are Richard Hoggart (1918), Alan Napier (1903), Herbert Lawford (1851), Eanflæd (626), Kate Atkinson (1951), and Catharine Macaulay (1731).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Daniel Oliver ranks 122. Before him are Sydney Parkinson (1745), Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), William John Burchell (1781), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), and Anne McLaren (1927). After him are William Kirby (1759), William John Swainson (1789), Thomas Bell (1792), George Montagu (1751), Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), and Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809).

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