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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, 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 160,397 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Francis Willughby is the 729th most popular biologist (up from 817th in 2019), the 3,632nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,823rd in 2019) and the 102nd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Francis Willughby ranks 729 out of 841. Before him are Katsuko Saruhashi, Robert Trivers, August Batsch, Frédéric de Lafresnaye, John Gerard, and Karl Hugo Strunz. After him are Richard Thomas Lowe, Johann Christoph Wendland, James Sowerby, Jakob Emanuel Lange, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, and Hipólito Ruiz López.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1635, Francis Willughby ranks 17. Before him are Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Philippe Quinault, Zanabazar, Isabella d'Este, Duchess of Parma, Frans van Mieris the Elder, and Patrick Gordon.  Among people deceased in 1672, Francis Willughby ranks 21. Before him are François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Marie of the Incarnation, Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Georg Stiernhielm, Guy Patin, and Anne Bradstreet. After him is Pedro Calungsod.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis Willughby ranks 3,632 out of 7,765. Before him are James Thomson (1700), Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591), Nigella Lawson (1960), Bernard Sumner (1956), Douglas Hartree (1897), and Malcolm Campbell (1885). After him are Peter Maxwell Davies (1934), Nicola Sturgeon (1970), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Anthony de la Roché (1700), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), and Barnes Wallis (1887).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Francis Willughby ranks 102. Before him are William Thomas Blanford (1832), Ray Lankester (1847), William Townsend Aiton (1766), Mary F. Lyon (1925), Thomas Bell (1792), and John Gerard (1545). After him are Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), James Sowerby (1757), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Daniel Oliver (1830), David Goodall (1914), and James Francis Stephens (1792).

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