BIOLOGIST

William Hudson

1730 - 1793

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William Hudson FRS (1730 in Kendal – 23 May 1793) was a British botanist and apothecary based in London. His main work was Flora Anglica, published in 1762. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hudson has received more than 13,414 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). William Hudson is the 441st most popular biologist (down from 359th in 2019), the 2,292nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,066th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Hudson ranks 441 out of 1,097Before him are Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Pieter Bleeker, Ernst Hartert, Alwin Berger, and Takenoshin Nakai. After him are Edward Daniel Clarke, Heinrich Boie, Zhores Medvedev, Luther Burbank, Heinrich Schrader, and Friedrich Boie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, William Hudson ranks 23Before him are Pieter Boddaert, Otto Friedrich Müller, Augustin Pajou, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, and Koca Yusuf Pasha. After him are Salomon Gessner, Henry Clinton, Sophie von La Roche, Noël Martin Joseph de Necker, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal, and Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. Among people deceased in 1793, William Hudson ranks 35Before him are Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Armand Louis de Gontaut, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Joannicius III of Constantinople, and Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine. After him are Charles de Bonchamps, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Karl Philipp Moritz, John Michell, Leopold Hofmann, and Noël Martin Joseph de Necker.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Hudson ranks 2,292 out of 8,785Before him are Gregor MacGregor (1786), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), John Haigh (1909), Noel Redding (1945), Richard Johnson (1927), and John Taverner (1490). After him are Tony Brooks (1932), John Terry (1980), Sylvester McCoy (1943), Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), Jimmy Somerville (1961), and Joseph Raphson (1648).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Hudson ranks 64Before him are James Edward Smith (1759), Gregory Winter (1951), Marie Stopes (1880), John Needham (1713), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), and William Speirs Bruce (1867). After him are Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), June Almeida (1930), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), Edward Blyth (1810), Paul Nurse (1949), and Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847).