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Edward Lhuyd

1660 - 1709

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Edward Lhuyd ( LOYD; Welsh: [ˈɬʊid]; 1660 – 30 June 1709), also known as Edward Lhwyd and by other spellings, was a Welsh scientist, geographer, historian and antiquary. He was the second Keeper of the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, and published the first catalogue of fossils, the Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Lhuyd is the 1,004th most popular biologist (down from 957th in 2019), the 5,015th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,847th in 2019) and the 172nd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edward Lhuyd ranks 1,004 out of 1,097. Before him are John Claudius Loudon, Edward William Nelson, Vladimir Sukachev, Elizabeth F. Neufeld, G. Ledyard Stebbins, and Jacques Miller. After him are Walter Migula, Rosa Smith Eigenmann, Annie Montague Alexander, Alice Wilson, Charles Sprague Sargent, and Charles B. Cory.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1660, Edward Lhuyd ranks 25. Before him are Jakob Prandtauer, Grace Sherwood, Francis Hauksbee, Gavriil Golovkin, Peter Schenk the Elder, and Jeanne Dumée.  Among people deceased in 1709, Edward Lhuyd ranks 23. Before him are George Rooke, Thomas Corneille, Dimitry of Rostov, Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Nicola Saggio, and William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Lhuyd ranks 5,016 out of 8,785. Before him are W. G. Grace (1848), Thomas Campbell (1777), Georgia Moffett (1984), Randolph Caldecott (1846), Hugh N. Kennedy (1947), and John Henry Davies (1864). After him are Victor Johnson (1883), Raymond Leppard (1927), Thomas Heywood (1574), C. H. Dodd (1884), Ronald Drever (1931), and Susan Hampshire (1937).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Edward Lhuyd ranks 172. Before him are Anne McLaren (1927), Alister Hardy (1896), Frederic Moore (1830), David Prain (1857), George Montagu (1751), and John Claudius Loudon (1783). After him are Nigel Marven (1960), Annie Lorrain Smith (1854), Hugh Huxley (1924), Prideaux John Selby (1788), David Lack (1910), and John Belchier (1706).

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