BIOLOGIST

Francis Willughby

1635 - 1672

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Francis Willughby (sometimes spelt Willoughby, Latin: Franciscus Willughbeius) FRS (22 November 1635 – 3 July 1672) was an English ornithologist, ichthyologist and mathematician, and an early student of linguistics and games. He was born and raised at Middleton Hall, Warwickshire, the only son of an affluent country family. He was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was tutored by the mathematician and naturalist John Ray, who became a lifetime friend and colleague, and lived with Willughby after 1662 when Ray lost his livelihood through his refusal to sign the Act of Uniformity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Willughby has received more than 169,020 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Francis Willughby is the 899th most popular biologist (down from 728th in 2019), the 4,373rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,624th in 2019) and the 136th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Francis Willughby ranks 899 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Fredrik Fallén, Peter Ascanius, Clinton Hart Merriam, Yasutomi Nishizuka, Otto Bütschli, and Wilhem de Haan. After him are Thomas Say, Robert Morison, Thomas Hardwicke, William Yarrell, Sereno Watson, and Thomas Nuttall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1635, Francis Willughby ranks 17. Before him are Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy, Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Isabella d'Este, Duchess of Parma, and Patrick Gordon. After him is George Etherege. Among people deceased in 1672, Francis Willughby ranks 22. Before him are Marie of the Incarnation, Guy Patin, Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Georg Stiernhielm, Anne Bradstreet, and Pedro Calungsod.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis Willughby ranks 4,373 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger Ashton-Griffiths (1957), Ian McLagan (1945), Gemma Chan (1982), Tricky (1968), Bruce Payne (1957), and Jeanette Winterson (1959). After him are H. J. R. Murray (1868), Daisy Ridley (1992), Emma Kirkby (1949), Neil Bartlett (1932), David Brabham (1965), and Julian Barbour (1937).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Francis Willughby ranks 136. Before him are Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), Charles Tate Regan (1878), Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800), Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), and David Goodall (1914). After him are Robert Morison (1620), William Yarrell (1784), Thomas Nuttall (1786), Ann Bishop (1899), Mark Catesby (1683), and Edward Newton (1832).

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