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Richard Bowdler Sharpe

1847 - 1909

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Richard Bowdler Sharpe (22 November 1847 – 25 December 1909) was an English zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of natural history. In the course of his career he published several monographs on bird groups and produced a multi-volume catalogue of the specimens in the collection of the museum. He described many new species of bird and also has had species named in his honour by other ornithologists including Sharpe's longclaw (Macronyx sharpei) and Sharpe's starling (Pholia sharpii). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Bowdler Sharpe is the 370th most popular biologist (up from 524th in 2019), the 1,922nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,610th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Biologist.

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Among biologists, Richard Bowdler Sharpe ranks 370 out of 1,097. Before him are Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Pierre Edmond Boissier, Jean René Constant Quoy, Olof Swartz, Joel Asaph Allen, and Charles Plumier. After him are Otto Kuntze, August Batsch, David Douglas, Georg Joseph Kamel, Frank Chapman, and Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Richard Bowdler Sharpe ranks 36. Before him are Robert Fuchs, Sidney Sonnino, Hans Gross, Afonso Pena, Nakano Takeko, and Ferdinand Fellner. After him are Giuseppe Giacosa, Adolf von Hildebrand, Jacob Schiff, Oscar Swahn, Josip Belušić, and John Bates Clark. Among people deceased in 1909, Richard Bowdler Sharpe ranks 39. Before him are George Meredith, Afonso Pena, Caran d'Ache, Harry Seeley, Abdul Karim, and Friedrich Martens. After him are Walther Ritz, Joshua Slocum, Margarete Steiff, Karl Krumbacher, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, and Zhang Zhidong.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Bowdler Sharpe ranks 1,922 out of 8,785. Before him are John Henry Poynting (1852), Leonard Woolley (1880), John Skelton (1460), Amy Johnson (1903), Edward the Exile (1016), and Pieter de Molijn (1595). After him are Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), Antony Beevor (1946), Charles Booth (1840), Clive Barker (1952), Victor McLaglen (1886), and Allen Carr (1934).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Richard Bowdler Sharpe ranks 58. Before him are John Gurdon (1933), Ian Wilmut (1944), Patrick Geddes (1854), Edward Blyth (1810), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), and Nehemiah Grew (1641). After him are David Douglas (1799), John Maynard Smith (1920), Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Matt Ridley (1958), William Elford Leach (1791), and June Almeida (1930).

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