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Herbert Giles

1845 - 1935

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Herbert Allen Giles (, 8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge for 35 years. Giles was educated at Charterhouse School before becoming a British diplomat in China. He modified a Mandarin Chinese romanization system established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade–Giles Chinese romanization system. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Giles has received more than 129,591 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Giles is the 787th most popular biologist (down from 745th in 2019), the 3,961st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,764th in 2019) and the 119th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Herbert Giles ranks 787 out of 841. Before him are Yang Zhongjian, Sereno Watson, Félix de Avelar Brotero, Charles Conrad Abbott, Judah Folkman, and Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky. After him are Alexander Wilson, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, André Marie Constant Duméril, and Jan Sztolcman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Herbert Giles ranks 85. Before him are Franz Ehrle, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Edward Douglass White, Lobengula, John Sparrow David Thompson, and Archibald Sayce. After him are Johan Henrik Deuntzer, Juan Bautista Egusquiza, Nikolaos Deligiannis, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, George Reid, and Daniel David Palmer. Among people deceased in 1935, Herbert Giles ranks 119. Before him are Jackson Showalter, Anna Katharine Green, Aimé Haegeman, Herbert Ponting, Johan Ramstedt, and James Quibell. After him are Nikodem Caro, Jón Þorláksson, Charles Kingsford Smith, Tryggvi Þórhallsson, Bernhard Britz, and Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Giles ranks 3,961 out of 7,765. Before him are George Graham (1944), Dev Patel (1990), John Hunter (1737), Thomas Love Peacock (1785), Delia Derbyshire (1937), and Donald Campbell (1921). After him are Christopher O'Neill (1974), Jayne Atkinson (1959), Alexander Wilson (1766), Pauline Baynes (1922), Ed Skrein (1983), and Walter Winterbottom (1913).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Herbert Giles ranks 119. Before him are Nigel Marven (1960), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), Lilian Gibbs (1870), Thomas Thomson (1817), and Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761). After him are Alexander Wilson (1766), Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), Thomas Nuttall (1786), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), Robert Wight (1796), and Robert Morison (1620).

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