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William Sherard

1659 - 1728

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William Sherard (27 February 1659 – 11 August 1728) was an English botanist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Sherard has received more than 18,352 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Sherard is the 690th most popular biologist (up from 769th in 2019), the 3,470th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,983rd in 2019) and the 90th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Sherard ranks 690 out of 841. Before him are Jan Frederik Gronovius, John Richardson, Antoine Risso, Carl Chun, William Hemsley, and Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet. After him are David Don, Élie-Abel Carrière, Johann Gerhard König, Jacob Bjerknes, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, and Miles Joseph Berkeley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1659, William Sherard ranks 13. Before him are Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Pieter van der Aa, Domenico Gabrielli, Adriaen van der Werff, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and David Gregory. After him is Sophia Elisabet Brenner. Among people deceased in 1728, William Sherard ranks 20. Before him are Cotton Mather, Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp, Jacob Heinrich von Flemming, Ogyū Sorai, Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Sherard ranks 3,470 out of 7,765. Before him are William Hemsley (1843), John Arbuthnot (1667), Thomas Linley the younger (1756), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), Luke Foxe (1586), and Blanche Bingley (1863). After him are Octavia Hill (1838), David Don (1799), Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), Barry Foster (1931), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), and Natalia Tena (1984).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Sherard ranks 90. Before him are Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), Andrew Smith (1797), Edward Newton (1832), Edward Blyth (1810), John Richardson (1787), and William Hemsley (1843). After him are David Don (1799), Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809), William Elford Leach (1791), N. E. Brown (1849), and William Thomas Blanford (1832).

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