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Edward Newton

1832 - 1897

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Sir Edward Newton (10 November 1832 – 25 April 1897) was a British colonial administrator and ornithologist. He was born at Elveden Hall, Suffolk the sixth and youngest son of William Newton, MP. He was the brother of ornithologist Alfred Newton. He graduated from Magdelene College, Cambridge in 1857 and was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Union. Newton was the Colonial Secretary for Mauritius from 1859 to 1877. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Newton is the 912th most popular biologist (up from 917th in 2019), the 4,156th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,503rd in 2019) and the 146th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edward Newton ranks 912 out of 1,097. Before him are Joseph Banks Rhine, Joseph Barcroft, Keith Campbell, Carl H. Eigenmann, Stanley Norman Cohen, and Jenny Clack. After him are Janet Rowley, François Gagnepain, Robert Wight, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Joshua Brookes, and Jan Sztolcman.

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Among people born in 1832, Edward Newton ranks 88. Before him are Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero, Juan Montalvo, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, Heinrich Gerber, Walter Q. Gresham, and Isaac Israel Hayes. After him are Juris Alunāns, Gyula Szapáry, Mary Everest Boole, Boston Corbett, Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg, and Gaspar Núñez de Arce. Among people deceased in 1897, Edward Newton ranks 74. Before him are Léon Gautier, Adam Asnyk, Oscar Dickson, Jan Heemskerk, Francesco Brioschi, and Gardiner Greene Hubbard. After him are Juan Idiarte Borda, Charles Blondin, Isaac Pitman, Berthold Englisch, and Margaret Oliphant.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Newton ranks 4,157 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Dekker (1572), William Rutter Dawes (1799), Jeanette Winterson (1959), Cædmon (657), Roy Bentley (1924), and David Marshall Lang (1924). After him are Eanflæd (626), Nathalie Emmanuel (1989), Charles Henry Bartlett (1885), Peter Murphy (1957), Philippa York (1958), and Tony Christie (1943).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Edward Newton ranks 146. Before him are Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Louis Fraser (1810), Joseph Barcroft (1872), Keith Campbell (1954), and Jenny Clack (1947). After him are Robert Wight (1796), G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856), Thomas Thomson (1817), Thomas Pennant (1726), and George Edwards (1694).

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