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John Gerard

1545 - 1612

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John Gerard (also John Gerarde, 1545–1612) was an English herbalist with a large garden in Holborn, now part of London. His 1,484-page illustrated Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597, became a popular gardening and herbal book in English in the 17th century. Except for some added plants from his own garden and from North America, Gerard's Herbal is largely a plagiarised English translation of Rembert Dodoens's 1554 herbal, itself highly popular in Dutch, Latin, French and other English translations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Gerard has received more than 191,398 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. John Gerard is the 727th most popular biologist, the 3,621st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 101st most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Gerard ranks 727 out of 841. Before him are Thomas Bell, Émil Goeldi, Katsuko Saruhashi, Robert Trivers, August Batsch, and Frédéric de Lafresnaye. After him are Karl Hugo Strunz, Francis Willughby, Richard Thomas Lowe, Johann Christoph Wendland, James Sowerby, and Jakob Emanuel Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1545, John Gerard ranks 14. Before him are Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara, John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, Anna of Sweden, Guidobaldo del Monte, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, and Powhatan.  Among people deceased in 1612, John Gerard ranks 29. Before him are Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow, Konoe Sakihisa, Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, Giulio Cesare Polerio, and Juan de la Cueva.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Gerard ranks 3,621 out of 7,765. Before him are Havergal Brian (1876), Fay Weldon (1931), Jamie Campbell Bower (1988), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845), Callum Keith Rennie (1960), and Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757). After him are Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812), Joe Cole (1981), John O. Westwood (1805), James Thomson (1700), and Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Gerard ranks 101. Before him are N. E. Brown (1849), William Thomas Blanford (1832), Ray Lankester (1847), William Townsend Aiton (1766), Mary F. Lyon (1925), and Thomas Bell (1792). After him are Francis Willughby (1635), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), James Sowerby (1757), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Daniel Oliver (1830), and David Goodall (1914).

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