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Mary Elizabeth Barber

1818 - 1899

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Mary Elizabeth Barber (5 January 1818 – 4 September 1899) was a pioneering British-born amateur scientist of the nineteenth century. Without formal education, she made a name for herself in botany, ornithology and entomology. She was also an accomplished poet and painter, and illustrated her scientific contributions that were published by learned societies such as the Royal Entomological Society in London, the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, and the Linnean Society of London. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Elizabeth Barber is the 437th most popular biologist (up from 796th in 2019), the 2,206th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,893rd in 2019) and the 69th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mary Elizabeth Barber ranks 437 out of 1,097. Before her are Paul Gervais, Wilhelm Roux, Roderick Murchison, Juan Ignacio Molina, Arthur Cronquist, and Robert Weinberg. After her are John Stevens Henslow, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, Rudolf Weigl, Oscar Hertwig, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, and Franz von Paula Schrank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Mary Elizabeth Barber ranks 54. Before her are Heinrich Kiepert, P. G. T. Beauregard, Louis Gerhard De Geer, Gustave Aimard, Antonio Bazzini, and Amelia Bloomer. After her are Petar Preradović, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Louis Buffet, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, and Artúr Görgei. Among people deceased in 1899, Mary Elizabeth Barber ranks 31. Before her are Edward Frankland, Lars Fredrik Nilson, Garret Hobart, Heinrich Kiepert, Teodolfo Mertel, and Abdallahi ibn Muhammad. After her are Mór Than, José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, George Averoff, Lucien Quélet, and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Elizabeth Barber ranks 2,206 out of 8,785. Before her are Æthelbald of Mercia (700), Prasutagus (50), Roderick Murchison (1792), Philip Selway (1967), James Finlayson (1887), and Mike Leigh (1943). After her are Steve Jones (1955), Liam Gallagher (1972), Mary Dyer (1611), David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), and Geri Halliwell (1972).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Mary Elizabeth Barber ranks 69. Before her are William Elford Leach (1791), June Almeida (1930), Arthur Tansley (1871), John Needham (1713), Andrew Smith (1797), and Roderick Murchison (1792). After her are John Stevens Henslow (1796), Alexander Wilson (1766), Francis Darwin (1848), Anna Russell (1807), Marie Stopes (1880), and William T. Stearn (1911).

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