BIOLOGIST

Edward Blyth

1810 - 1873

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Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta. He set about updating the museum's catalogues, publishing a Catalogue of the Birds of the Asiatic Society in 1849. He was prevented from doing much fieldwork himself, but received and described bird specimens from A.O. Hume, Samuel Tickell, Robert Swinhoe among others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Blyth has received more than 119,592 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Edward Blyth is the 501st most popular biologist (up from 670th in 2019), the 2,537th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,393rd in 2019) and the 68th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edward Blyth ranks 501 out of 1,097. Before him are Wilhelm Pfeffer, Charles De Geer, George Prideaux Robert Harris, Jules Émile Planchon, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, and Francis Collins. After him are Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Adolf Mayer, Aaron Aaronsohn, Achille Valenciennes, Sébastien Vaillant, and Edwin Klebs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Edward Blyth ranks 58. Before him are Johann Löwenthal, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Abraham Geiger, Louis Gallait, Maurice de Guérin, and Giovanni Lanza. After him are Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Eugène Belgrand, Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Grigory Gagarin, and Ernest Courtot de Cissey. Among people deceased in 1873, Edward Blyth ranks 46. Before him are Malek Jahan Khanom, Paweł Strzelecki, Auguste von Harrach, Caterina Scarpellini, Mary Ann Cotton, and Auguste Couder. After him are Edwin Landseer, Spyridon Trikoupis, Gheorghe Bibescu, Francis Marrash, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Blyth ranks 2,537 out of 8,785. Before him are Harry Seeley (1839), Hugh Despenser the younger (1287), Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838), Marianne North (1830), and Warwick Davis (1970). After him are Edwin Arnold (1832), Gordon Jackson (1923), Barry Jackson (1938), Leslie Stephen (1832), John Thaw (1942), and Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Edward Blyth ranks 68. Before him are George Robert Waterhouse (1810), William Speirs Bruce (1867), William Hudson (1730), Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), June Almeida (1930), and George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799). After him are Paul Nurse (1949), Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847), Patrick Manson (1844), William Curtis (1746), John Gilbert Baker (1834), and Andrew Smith (1797).

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