BIOLOGIST

Henry Nicholas Ridley

1855 - 1956

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Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG (1911), MA (Oxon), FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. (10 December 1855 – 24 October 1956) was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore. He was instrumental in promoting rubber trees in the Malay Peninsula that led to a level of rapid deforestation, instrumental in the 1926 Great Flood. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Nicholas Ridley has received more than 66,881 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Nicholas Ridley is the 865th most popular biologist (down from 748th in 2019), the 4,199th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,738th in 2019) and the 127th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Henry Nicholas Ridley ranks 865 out of 1,097. Before him are Axel Gudbrand Blytt, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Stanley Norman Cohen, Ken Alibek, Thomas Bell, and George Montagu. After him are Grigore Antipa, Thomas Campbell Eyton, Pierre Chambon, Hermann Harms, Birbal Sahni, and Charles Horton Peck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Henry Nicholas Ridley ranks 93. Before him are Vittoria Aganoor, Olive Schreiner, Alfred Ewing, Marie Stritt, Ludwig Ganghofer, and Robert M. La Follette. After him are Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, William Friese-Greene, Pierre Puiseux, August Spies, Clinton Hart Merriam, and Edward Angle. Among people deceased in 1956, Henry Nicholas Ridley ranks 183. Before him are Robert Newton, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Robert Julius Trumpler, Robert Yerkes, Jan Lechoń, and Otto Scheff. After him are Khadr El-Touni, Leonard Peterson, María Teresa Ferrari, Alex Raymond, Wollmar Boström, and Edward Arnold.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Nicholas Ridley ranks 4,199 out of 8,785. Before him are Nigel Davenport (1928), Andy White (1930), Raymond Gosling (1926), William Nicol (1770), Humza Yousaf (1985), and George Montagu (1751). After him are Brandon Carter (1942), Ernest Mangnall (1866), William Dobson (1610), Ray Thomas (1941), Raymond Briggs (1934), and Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Henry Nicholas Ridley ranks 127. Before him are Anne McLaren (1927), Daniel Oliver (1830), William Kirby (1759), William John Swainson (1789), Thomas Bell (1792), and George Montagu (1751). After him are Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809), G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), Charles Tate Regan (1878), Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800), and Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902).

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