BIOLOGIST

Thomas Hardwicke

1755 - 1835

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Major-General Thomas Hardwicke (1756 – 3 March 1835) was an English soldier and naturalist who was in India from 1777 to 1823. He collected numerous specimens of natural history and had them painted by Indian artists. From these paintings many new species were described. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Hardwicke has received more than 30,365 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Thomas Hardwicke is the 902nd most popular biologist (down from 735th in 2019).

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Thomas Hardwicke ranks 902 out of 1,097. Before him are Yasutomi Nishizuka, Otto Bütschli, Wilhem de Haan, Francis Willughby, Thomas Say, and Robert Morison. After him are William Yarrell, Sereno Watson, Thomas Nuttall, Ruth Patrick, Colin Munro MacLeod, and Robert May, Baron May of Oxford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Thomas Hardwicke ranks 49. Before him are Marc-Antoine Parseval, Jacques Labillardière, Nathan Hale, Johann Christoph Wendland, Oliver Evans, and William Bradford. After him are Rufus King, Narayan Rao, and Nicholas Gilman. Among people deceased in 1835, Thomas Hardwicke ranks 35. Before him are Alexander McDonnell, Pauline Auzou, Muthuswami Dikshitar, Wenzel Müller, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, and James Hogg. After him are Kazimierz Brodziński, William Cobbett, and Felicia Hemans.

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