BIOLOGIST

George Edwards

1694 - 1773

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George Edwards (3 April 1694 – 23 July 1773) was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology". Edwards was born at West Ham, then in the county of Essex. In his early years, he travelled extensively through mainland Europe, studying natural history, and gained a reputation for his coloured drawings of animals, especially birds. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Edwards has received more than 14,814 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. George Edwards is the 814th most popular biologist (down from 743rd in 2019), the 3,985th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,713th in 2019) and the 113th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 46.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, George Edwards ranks 814 out of 1,097. Before her are Yang Zhongjian, Herbert Copeland, Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, Alfred Cogniaux, Gottlieb Haberlandt, and Félix de Avelar Brotero. After her are Edward Donovan, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux, Gaston Bonnier, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, and Carl Bolle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1694, George Edwards ranks 24. Before her are Charles-Antoine Coypel, René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, Daniel Gran, Hans Adolph Brorson, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, and Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.  Among people deceased in 1773, George Edwards ranks 17. Before her are Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Stanisław Konarski, Alexis Piron, Pietro Bracci, and Ismail III. After her is Narayan Rao.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Edwards ranks 3,985 out of 8,785. Before her are Ron Tauranac (1925), Hugh Clapperton (1788), Bart McGhee (1899), R. M. Ballantyne (1825), Robert Jameson (1774), and James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife (1929). After her are Lisa Stansfield (1966), Saffron Burrows (1972), Anthony Joshua (1989), Kenneth MacMillan (1929), Joanne Harris (1964), and Robin Trower (1945).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, George Edwards ranks 113. Before her are Henry Baker (1698), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), William Townsend Aiton (1766), Alec Jeffreys (1950), and Thomas Thomson (1817). After her are William Hemsley (1843), Herbert Giles (1845), Sydney Parkinson (1745), Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), William John Burchell (1781), and D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860).

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