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Thomas Brisbane

1773 - 1860

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Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, (23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860), was a British Army officer, administrator, and astronomer. Upon the recommendation of the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had served, he was appointed governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825. A keen astronomer, he built the colony's second observatory and encouraged scientific and agricultural training. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Brisbane has received more than 205,568 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Brisbane is the 511th most popular astronomer (down from 482nd in 2019), the 4,773rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,322nd in 2019) and the 66th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Thomas Brisbane ranks 511 out of 531Before him are Luciano Tesi, Adriaan van Maanen, David C. Jewitt, Okuro Oikawa, Pavel Shternberg, and Hiroshi Kaneda. After him are Takao Kobayashi, Yoshisada Shimizu, Fernand Rigaux, Ernest Esclangon, Kenzo Suzuki, and Thomas Bopp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Thomas Brisbane ranks 47Before him are Mihály Csokonai, Joseph Woelfl, Mihály Pollack, José Rondeau, Thomas Horsfield, and Princess Sophia of Gloucester.  Among people deceased in 1860, Thomas Brisbane ranks 57Before him are Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, James Wilson, André Marie Constant Duméril, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, and John Nelson. After him is Samuel D. Ingham.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Brisbane ranks 4,773 out of 7,765Before him are John Betjeman (1906), Daniel Sharman (1986), Emile Heskey (1978), Mark Mazower (1958), Terry Paine (1939), and Anna Löwenstein (1951). After him are Colin Greenwood (1969), George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716), Bart McGhee (1899), Owen Barfield (1898), Daniel Massey (1933), and George Russell (1998).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Brisbane ranks 66Before him are William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843), Richard A. Proctor (1837), James Challis (1803), Mary Adela Blagg (1858), Robert H. McNaught (1956), and David C. Jewitt (1958). After him are James Ferguson (1710) and Arnold Wolfendale (1927).