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BIOLOGIST

William Townsend Aiton

1766 - 1849

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William Townsend Aiton FRHS FLS (2 February 1766 – 9 October 1849) was an English botanist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Townsend Aiton has received more than 23,416 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. William Townsend Aiton is the 717th most popular biologist (down from 649th in 2019), the 3,603rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,172nd in 2019) and the 98th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Townsend Aiton ranks 717 out of 841Before him are Karl Patterson Schmidt, David Keilin, Anton Reichenow, Wilhelm Hofmeister, Ray Lankester, and Francisco Manuel Blanco. After him are François Marie Daudin, Ernst Ahl, Mary F. Lyon, Thomas Bell, Émil Goeldi, and Katsuko Saruhashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, William Townsend Aiton ranks 32Before him are Joseph Weigl, Samuel Frederick Gray, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Benjamin Smith Barton, John Farey Sr., and Wilhelm Hisinger. After him are Alexander Wilson and Isaac D'Israeli. Among people deceased in 1849, William Townsend Aiton ranks 53Before him are Filippo Paulucci, Marc Isambard Brunel, Mariano Paredes, Maria Edgeworth, William Etty, and Edward Hicks. After him are José María Carreño, Albert Gallatin, Francisco Ramón Vicuña, and George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Townsend Aiton ranks 3,603 out of 7,765Before him are John Lyons (1932), Cædmon (657), Jonathan Coe (1961), Ray Lankester (1847), George Coulouris (1903), and Reginald Owen (1887). After him are George Larner (1875), Peter Whitehead (1914), Niall Ferguson (1964), Peter Perez Burdett (1734), Hanif Kureishi (1954), and Geoff Nicholls (1948).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Townsend Aiton ranks 98Before him are Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809), William Elford Leach (1791), N. E. Brown (1849), William Thomas Blanford (1832), and Ray Lankester (1847). After him are Mary F. Lyon (1925), Thomas Bell (1792), John Gerard (1545), Francis Willughby (1635), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), and James Sowerby (1757).