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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 38,298 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Prideaux John Selby is the 845th most popular biologist (down from 758th in 2019), the 4,381st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,862nd in 2019) and the 135th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Prideaux John Selby ranks 845 out of 841Before him are Ardem Patapoutian, Gottlieb Haberlandt, Blasius Merrem, Alfred Romer, Frank Fenner, and Louis Fraser. After him are Herbert Boyer, Joseph Barcroft, Jules Pierre Rambur, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Robert Ridgway, and Charles Horton Peck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Prideaux John Selby ranks 53Before him are Adoniram Judson, Edwin Atherstone, Károly Kisfaludy, Hugh Clapperton, William Henry Smyth, and Charles Robert Cockerell. After him are John Canfield Spencer and Sarah Josepha Hale. Among people deceased in 1867, Prideaux John Selby ranks 55Before him are José Mariano Salas, Charles John Andersson, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, and Athanasios Miaoulis. After him are Robert Smirke, Sterling Price, and Nathaniel Parker Willis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Prideaux John Selby ranks 4,381 out of 7,765Before him are Tracey Ullman (1959), Murray Rose (1939), Dana Rosemary Scallon (1951), Stephen Spender (1909), Sarah Waters (1966), and Thomas Hughes (1822). After him are Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860), William Beechey (1753), Denis Lawson (1947), Michael Howard (1941), Florence Pugh (1996), and Richie Hawtin (1970).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Prideaux John Selby ranks 135Before him are William Roxburgh (1751), Henry Baker (1698), William T. Stearn (1911), Keith Campbell (1954), Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844), and Louis Fraser (1810). After him are Joseph Barcroft (1872), Mark Catesby (1683), Gilbert White (1720), Alister Hardy (1896), George Montagu (1751), and David Douglas (1799).