BIOLOGIST

Prideaux John Selby

1788 - 1867

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Prideaux John Selby FRSE FLS (23 July 1788 – 27 March 1867) was an English ornithologist, botanist and natural history artist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prideaux John Selby has received more than 40,955 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Prideaux John Selby is the 1,000th most popular biologist (down from 844th in 2019), the 5,207th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,372nd in 2019) and the 169th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Prideaux John Selby ranks 1,000 out of 1,097. Before him are Paul Sereno, Bryan Sykes, Annie Lorrain Smith, Robert Collett, John Claudius Loudon, and Tilly Edinger. After him are Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, William Healey Dall, Peter Watts, Fanny Hesse, Maxine Singer, and Amos Eaton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Prideaux John Selby ranks 59. Before him are Edwin Atherstone, Hugh Clapperton, Charles Robert Cockerell, William Henry Smyth, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker, and John Canfield Spencer. After him is Sarah Josepha Hale. Among people deceased in 1867, Prideaux John Selby ranks 62. Before him are Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Ira Aldridge, Robert Smirke, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Sterling Price. After him is Thomas Francis Meagher.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Prideaux John Selby ranks 5,207 out of 8,785. Before him are Joan Greenwood (1921), Thomas Allen (1944), Julian Bailey (1961), Edmund Rubbra (1901), Tony Robinson (1946), and Denis Healey (1917). After him are Trevor Ford (1923), Ted Morgan (1906), Montagu Love (1877), Stigand (null), Ian Raby (1921), and Hugh N. Kennedy (1947).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Prideaux John Selby ranks 169. Before him are Hugh Huxley (1924), Lancelot Hogben (1895), David Douglas (1799), Bryan Sykes (1947), Annie Lorrain Smith (1854), and John Claudius Loudon (1783). After him are Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844), Alexander Wilson (1766), Karl Shuker (1959), David Prain (1857), Anthony R. Hunter (1943), and David Lack (1910).

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