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Henry Nicholas Ridley

1855 - 1956

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Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG (1911), MA (Oxon), FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. (10 December 1855 – 24 October 1956) was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore. He was instrumental in promoting rubber trees in the Malay Peninsula that led to a level of rapid deforestation, instrumental in the 1926 Great Flood. For the fervour with which he pursued this work he came to be known as "Mad Ridley". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Nicholas Ridley is the 802nd most popular biologist (up from 865th in 2019), the 3,603rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,200th in 2019) and the 116th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Henry Nicholas Ridley ranks 802 out of 1,097. Before him are Ole Borch, David Suzuki, Jan Frederik Gronovius, John Jacob Abel, Edmund Reitter, and Franz Unger. After him are Tommaso Salvadori, Lilian Gibbs, Jane Colden, Ludwik Hirszfeld, Giacomo Bresadola, and Johann Jacob Dillenius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Henry Nicholas Ridley ranks 85. Before him are Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt, Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, Eugene V. Debs, Emil Paur, Frank Hadow, and Karl Madsen. After him are August Spies, Vittoria Aganoor, Cecilia Beaux, Pierre Puiseux, Oskar von Miller, and C. V. Boys. Among people deceased in 1956, Henry Nicholas Ridley ranks 157. Before him are Johnny Claes, Robert Julius Trumpler, María Teresa Ferrari, Guido Boni, Grigory Shajn, and Teresa Feoderovna Ries. After him are Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, Louis Calhern, Albert Kluyver, George Bancroft, Juan José de Amézaga, and René Bougnol.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Nicholas Ridley ranks 3,604 out of 8,785. Before him are Grace Aguilar (1816), Steven Knight (1959), Christian Horner (1973), Laura Ashley (1925), William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396), and Adrienne Corri (1931). After him are Nassau William Senior (1790), Dave Legeno (1963), Margaret Mee (1909), Jonathan Nolan (1976), H. B. Warner (1876), and Roger Taylor (1960).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Henry Nicholas Ridley ranks 116. Before him are Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), John Hutchinson (1884), David Don (1799), Mary F. Lyon (1925), Albert Bruce Jackson (1876), and Richard Thomas Lowe (1802). After him are Lilian Gibbs (1870), William Thomas Blanford (1832), Herbert Giles (1845), John Abbot (1751), Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800), and John Gerard (1545).

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