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Richard Thomas Lowe

1802 - 1874

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Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) was an English botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and clergyman. In 1825 he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, and in the same year he took holy orders. In 1832 he became a clergyman in the Madeira Islands, where he was also a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the local flora and fauna. He wrote a book on the Madeiran flora. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Thomas Lowe is the 793rd most popular biologist (up from 931st in 2019), the 3,583rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,584th in 2019) and the 115th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Richard Thomas Lowe ranks 793 out of 1,097Before him are Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Josephine Kablick, Johan Lange, Albert Bruce Jackson, Émile Blanchard, and Eduard von Martens. After him are Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, Ole Borch, David Suzuki, Jan Frederik Gronovius, and John Jacob Abel.

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Among people born in 1802, Richard Thomas Lowe ranks 51Before him are Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, August Friedrich Pott, Eugène Flachat, Yuriy Venelin, Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, and Alexander Odoevsky. After him are Sylvain Van de Weyer, Charles-Mathias Simons, Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Nicholas Wiseman, Édouard Ménétries, and Dorothea Dix. Among people deceased in 1874, Richard Thomas Lowe ranks 48Before him are Jean Cruveilhier, Heinrich von Kittlitz, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Victor Baltard, Robert Edmond Grant, and John Phillips. After him are Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Charles-Mathias Simons, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, Ștefan Golescu, and Vítězslav Hálek.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Thomas Lowe ranks 3,584 out of 8,785Before him are Wilfred Baddeley (1872), Ian Stewart (1949), Winifred McNair (1877), John Phillips (1800), Tommy Hampson (1907), and W. J. Coffee (1774). After him are David Sylvian (1958), Stuart McCall (1964), John Soane (1753), Tom Phillips (1888), Guy Butler (1899), and Stafford Cripps (1889).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Richard Thomas Lowe ranks 115Before him are William Roxburgh (1751), Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), John Hutchinson (1884), David Don (1799), Mary F. Lyon (1925), and Albert Bruce Jackson (1876). After him are Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), Lilian Gibbs (1870), William Thomas Blanford (1832), Herbert Giles (1845), John Abbot (1751), and Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800).