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Richard Bowdler Sharpe

1847 - 1909

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Richard Bowdler Sharpe (22 November 1847 – 25 December 1909) was an English zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of natural history. In the course of his career he published several monographs on bird groups and produced a multi-volume catalogue of the specimens in the collection of the museum. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Bowdler Sharpe has received more than 92,551 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Richard Bowdler Sharpe is the 524th most popular biologist (down from 519th in 2019), the 2,610th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,741st in 2019) and the 70th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Richard Bowdler Sharpe ranks 524 out of 1,097. Before him are Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Eugène Simon, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Arthur Cronquist, Wilhelm Hofmeister, and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur. After him are Franz von Paula Schrank, Emil Racoviță, Patrick Manson, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, and Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Richard Bowdler Sharpe ranks 65. Before him are William Edward Ayrton, Kálmán Mikszáth, Karl Wittgenstein, Émile Faguet, Domenico Ferrata, and Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird. After him are Chiquinha Gonzaga, Charles Renard, Michel-Joseph Maunoury, Joseph Achille Le Bel, Heinrich Gelzer, and Frederick Arthur Bridgman. Among people deceased in 1909, Richard Bowdler Sharpe ranks 61. Before him are Pascual Cervera y Topete, Helena Modjeska, Futabatei Shimei, Giuseppe Martucci, Harry Seeley, and Eva Bonnier. After him are Madan Lal Dhingra, Innokenty Annensky, Whitcomb L. Judson, Fazlullah Nouri, Euclides da Cunha, and Manuel Amador Guerrero.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Bowdler Sharpe ranks 2,610 out of 8,785. Before him are Caradoc (470), Phil Manzanera (1951), Simon Wright (1963), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Gary Neville (1975), and Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903). After him are Henry Pottinger (1789), Ashley Cole (1980), George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946), Austin Osman Spare (1886), Dominic West (1969), and Thomas Arnold (1795).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Richard Bowdler Sharpe ranks 70. Before him are William Hudson (1730), Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), June Almeida (1930), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), Edward Blyth (1810), and Paul Nurse (1949). After him are Patrick Manson (1844), William Curtis (1746), John Gilbert Baker (1834), Andrew Smith (1797), Edward Turner Bennett (1797), and Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803).

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