BIOLOGIST

George Bentham

1800 - 1884

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George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Bentham has received more than 138,073 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). George Bentham is the 279th most popular biologist (up from 395th in 2019), the 1,563rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,200th in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 30

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  • 2.62

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, George Bentham ranks 279 out of 1,097. Before him are Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Jérôme Lejeune, Jack W. Szostak, John Maynard Smith, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, and René Louiche Desfontaines. After him are Salim Ali, Wilhelm Peters, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, David Baltimore, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, George Bentham ranks 31. Before him are Roberto de Visiani, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Henri Milne-Edwards, and Achille Devéria. After him are Ányos Jedlik, John Nelson Darby, Charles Rogier, Aga Khan I, Jakob Lorber, and Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1884, George Bentham ranks 25. Before him are Jules Bastien-Lepage, Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, Paul Abadie, Hermann Schlegel, Eduard Rüppell, and Cetshwayo kaMpande. After him are William, Duke of Brunswick, Eduard Totleben, Leopold Fitzinger, Juan Bautista Alberdi, François Mignet, and Ludwig Richter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Bentham ranks 1,563 out of 8,785. Before him are Simon Rattle (1955), Philip Kerr (1956), Clive Barker (1952), Lord William Bentinck (1774), Edward L. G. Bowell (1943), and Bear Grylls (1974). After him are John Guillermin (1925), Samantha Fox (1966), Andrew Lincoln (1973), Thomas Byles (1870), Erling Braut Håland (2000), and Hugh Fraser (1945).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, George Bentham ranks 46. Before him are Richard Henderson (1945), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Lindley (1799), Francis Darwin (1848), Jack W. Szostak (1952), and John Maynard Smith (1920). After him are Patrick Geddes (1854), John Sulston (1942), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), William Jackson Hooker (1785), Arthur Tansley (1871), and John Gould (1804).

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