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Marmaduke Tunstall

1743 - 1790

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Marmaduke Tunstall (1743 – 11 October 1790) was an English ornithologist and collector. He was the author of Ornithologia Britannica (1771), probably the first British work to use binomial nomenclature. Tunstall was born at Burton Constable in Yorkshire. In 1760, he succeeded to the family estates of Scargill, Hutton, Long Villers and Wycliffe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marmaduke Tunstall is the 899th most popular biologist (down from 736th in 2019), the 4,068th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,552nd in 2019) and the 141st most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Marmaduke Tunstall ranks 899 out of 1,097. Before him are Frederic Clements, Hugh Edwin Strickland, Benjamin Smith Barton, Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Ángel Cabrera, and Alfred G. Knudson. After him are Otto Bütschli, Johannes Schmidt, Christian Friedrich Ecklon, Palisot de Beauvois, Sereno Watson, and Louis Fraser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Marmaduke Tunstall ranks 33. Before him are Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Johannes Ewald, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, and Johann David Wyss. After him is John Fitch. Among people deceased in 1790, Marmaduke Tunstall ranks 18. Before him are William Cullen, Johann II Bernoulli, Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, and Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn. After him are Israel Putnam, William Livingston, Thomas Warton, and William Hooper.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Marmaduke Tunstall ranks 4,069 out of 8,785. Before him are Clements Markham (1830), Jay Kay (1969), Stephen Spender (1909), Kevin McKidd (1973), Luke Foxe (1586), and Joan Aiken (1924). After him are Glenn Hoddle (1957), Donald Nicol (1923), Edith Hannam (1878), Tom Boyd (1965), Robert James-Collier (1976), and Gerrard Winstanley (1609).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Marmaduke Tunstall ranks 141. Before him are William Hemsley (1843), Henry Baker (1698), Charles Tate Regan (1878), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), William Townsend Aiton (1766), and Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811). After him are Louis Fraser (1810), Joseph Barcroft (1872), Keith Campbell (1954), Jenny Clack (1947), Edward Newton (1832), and Robert Wight (1796).

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