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William Curtis

1746 - 1799

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William Curtis (11 January 1746 – 7 July 1799) was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire, site of the Curtis Museum. Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The publications he prepared reached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended. At the age of 25 he produced Instructions for collecting and preserving insects; particularly moths and butterflies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Curtis is the 534th most popular biologist (up from 535th in 2019), the 2,598th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,653rd in 2019) and the 81st most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Curtis ranks 534 out of 1,097. Before him are Eduard August von Regel, Franz Meyen, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Princess Therese of Bavaria, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, and Edouard Van Beneden. After him are Ernst Schäfer, Matthias de l'Obel, Camille Guérin, Edward Daniel Clarke, Rupert Sheldrake, and Kliment Timiryazev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, William Curtis ranks 29. Before him are Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Antonio Rosetti, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, and Jean-Sifrein Maury. After him are Joachim Heinrich Campe, Bernardo de Gálvez, Charles Cameron, André Thouin, Louise du Pierry, and James Wyatt. Among people deceased in 1799, William Curtis ranks 28. Before him are Marcus Elieser Bloch, Claude Balbastre, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Patrick Henry, Johann Hedwig, and Pierre Pigneau de Behaine. After him are Jean-Étienne Montucla, Giuseppe Parini, Johann Julius Walbaum, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, William Withering, and Francesco Mario Pagano.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Curtis ranks 2,599 out of 8,785. Before him are J. M. E. McTaggart (1866), Hamnet Shakespeare (1585), Alfred Tysoe (1874), Mary Ure (1933), Henry Percy (1364), and A. H. M. Jones (1904). After him are Gordon Jackson (1923), Glen Matlock (1956), Tom Hiddleston (1981), Edward Vernon (1684), Lewis Gilbert (1920), and Damien Hirst (1965).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Curtis ranks 81. Before him are William T. Stearn (1911), Richard Lydekker (1849), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), William Hudson (1730), Alec Jeffreys (1950), and Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (1950). After him are Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), Robert Fortune (1812), Sarah Gilbert (1962), John Gilbert Baker (1834), and Frederick DuCane Godman (1834).

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