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Mary Ward

1827 - 1869

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Mary Ward (née King; 27 April 1827 – 31 August 1869) was an Irish naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist. She was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins. As the event occurred in 1869, she is the first person known to have been killed by a motor vehicle. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Ward is the 578th most popular astronomer (down from 557th in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 315th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Irish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Mary Ward ranks 578 out of 644. Before her are Andrew Ainslie Common, John August Anderson, Kin Endate, David Rittenhouse, Rosaly Lopes, and Naoto Satō. After her are Makio Akiyama, Yoshisada Shimizu, Masaru Arai, Peter Goldreich, Dorrit Hoffleit, and Philip Herbert Cowell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Mary Ward ranks 70. Before her are Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Quintino Sella, Emma Schenson, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, John Owen, and Richard Morris Hunt. After her are Henry Warner Slocum, Milton Latham, and Augustus Pitt Rivers. Among people deceased in 1869, Mary Ward ranks 65. Before her are Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Charles Sturt, Peter Mark Roget, John Cassin, Thomas Hodgskin, and Henry Jarvis Raymond. After her are John Bell, William P. Fessenden, Benjamin Fitzpatrick, and Edward Bates.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Mary Ward ranks 328 out of 549. Before her are Billy Whelan (1935), Colum McCann (1965), Patrick Leahy (1877), Thomas Fitzsimons (1741), Desmond Connell (1926), and William Hobson (1792). After her are Damien Rice (1973), Geoffrey Keating (1569), Graham Norton (1963), Maria Doyle Kennedy (1964), James Cecil Parke (1881), and Roddy Doyle (1958).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ireland

Among astronomers born in Ireland, Mary Ward ranks 8. Before her are Thomas Romney Robinson (1792), Edward Sabine (1788), Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848), Mary Proctor (1862), Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (1865), and Agnes Mary Clerke (1842).

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