BIOLOGIST

William Kirby

1759 - 1850

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William Kirby (19 September 1759 – 4 July 1850) was an English entomologist, an original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a country rector, so that he was an eminent example of the "parson-naturalist". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Kirby has received more than 8,030 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). William Kirby is the 854th most popular biologist (up from 885th in 2019), the 4,141st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,726th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular British Biologist.

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  • 2.79

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Kirby ranks 854 out of 1,097. Before him are Édouard Ménétries, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Robert Ridgway, Anne McLaren, Daniel Oliver, and Joshua Brookes. After him are John Torrey, William John Swainson, C. B. van Niel, Johannes Schmidt, Axel Gudbrand Blytt, and Liberty Hyde Bailey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, William Kirby ranks 41. Before him are Cornelio Saavedra, August Wilhelm Iffland, Andrey Voronikhin, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, Carl Frederik von Breda, and Thomas Andrew Knight. After him are Dean Mahomed, and Daniel Beale. Among people deceased in 1850, William Kirby ranks 58. Before him are Garlieb Merkel, Bernt Michael Holmboe, Adoniram Judson, Valentín Canalizo, Giuseppe Giusti, and Johann Jakob Bernhardi. After him are Karl Schorn, and Aaron Alexandre.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Kirby ranks 4,141 out of 8,785. Before him are Herbert Lawford (1851), Eanflæd (626), Kate Atkinson (1951), Catharine Macaulay (1731), Lily James (1989), and Archie Stark (1897). After him are William Muir (1819), Ireen Sheer (1949), Roger Hargreaves (1935), Herbert Baddeley (1872), Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), and Mike Summerbee (1942).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Kirby ranks 123. Before him are Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), William John Burchell (1781), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), Anne McLaren (1927), and Daniel Oliver (1830). After him are William John Swainson (1789), Thomas Bell (1792), George Montagu (1751), Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809), and G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903).

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