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Thomas Hardwicke

1755 - 1835

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Major-General Thomas Hardwicke (1756 – 3 March 1835) was an English soldier and naturalist who was in India from 1777 to 1823. He collected numerous specimens of natural history and had them painted by Indian artists. From these paintings many new species were described. Several of these species are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Hardwicke is the 827th most popular biologist (up from 902nd in 2019). (up from 4,325th in 2019)

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Among biologists, Thomas Hardwicke ranks 827 out of 1,097. Before him are John Abbot, Albrecht Thaer, Akira Miyawaki, Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, Michele Tenore, and Ernst Ahl. After him are Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Charles Wallace Richmond, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, John Gerard, Alfred Cogniaux, and Osbert Salvin.

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Among people born in 1755, Thomas Hardwicke ranks 45. Before him are Jacques Labillardière, Dorothea Viehmann, Marc-Antoine Parseval, Stanisław Staszic, Nicolas Fuss, and Narayan Rao. After him are William Bradford, Abol-Fath Khan Zand, Johann Christoph Wendland, Nathan Hale, Oliver Evans, and Rufus King. Among people deceased in 1835, Thomas Hardwicke ranks 29. Before him are Sally Hemings, Rain-in-the-Face, Tomás de Zumalacárregui, Ivan Martos, Leopoldo Nobili, and Wenzel Müller. After him are Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito, Pauline Auzou, Andreas Miaoulis, William Cobbett, and Muthuswami Dikshitar.

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