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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 7,598 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. William Kirby is the 886th most popular biologist (down from 781st in 2019), the 4,738th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,206th in 2019) and the 149th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Kirby ranks 886 out of 841Before him are George R. Price, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, Lancelot Hogben, Carl Meissner, Johann Georg Wagler, and Alec Jeffreys. After him are John Kunkel Small, Peter Watts, Akhtar Hameed Khan, Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Samuel Garman, and Wilhem de Haan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, William Kirby ranks 38Before him are Andrey Voronikhin, Cornelio Saavedra, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, August Wilhelm Iffland, and Thomas Andrew Knight. After him is Dean Mahomed. Among people deceased in 1850, William Kirby ranks 54Before him are Karl Schorn, Adoniram Judson, Bernt Michael Holmboe, Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, and Valentín Canalizo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Kirby ranks 4,738 out of 7,765Before him are Jessie J (1988), Robert Hamer (1911), Dick King-Smith (1922), Alec Jeffreys (1950), Harry Lloyd (1983), and Julie Driscoll Tippetts (1947). After him are Jet Harris (1939), Mike Hodges (1932), C. V. Boys (1855), Lynn Fontanne (1887), John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860), and John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (1958).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Kirby ranks 149Before him are Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), William Yarrell (1784), Bryan Sykes (1947), Charles Tate Regan (1878), Lancelot Hogben (1895), and Alec Jeffreys (1950). After him are Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), John Claudius Loudon (1783), David Lack (1910), Sydney Parkinson (1745), Archibald Menzies (1754), and Thomas Pennant (1726).