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William Martin

1767 - 1810

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William Martin (1767 – 31 May 1810) was an English naturalist and palaeontologist who proposed that science should use fossils as evidence to support the study of natural history. Martin published the first colour pictures of fossils and the first scientific study of fossils in English. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Martin is the 14,387th most popular politician (up from 15,067th in 2019), the 3,616th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,913th in 2019) and the 494th most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, William Martin ranks 14,387 out of 19,576. Before him are José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, Horacio Vásquez, Arcesilaus I of Cyrene, Ruth Williams Khama, Bainbridge Colby, and Quentin Bryce. After him are Fritz Schäffer, Carlos Roberto Reina, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Andrej Bajuk, Jean-Jacques Honorat, and Baltasar Brum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1767, William Martin ranks 51. Before him are Tyagaraja, Joseph-François Michaud, Leopold I, Prince of Lippe, John Pond, Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg. After him is Wenzel Müller. Among people deceased in 1810, William Martin ranks 28. Before him are Antoine-Denis Chaudet, József Alvinczi, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, and George Prideaux Robert Harris. After him are Charles Brockden Brown, Said bin Ahmad, Johann Gottfried Seume, Tomás António Gonzaga, John Hoppner, and Sarah Trimmer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Martin ranks 3,617 out of 8,785. Before him are Matthew Goode (1978), Emerald Fennell (1985), Ramón Zabalo (1910), Ruth Williams Khama (1923), Matthew Macfadyen (1974), and Paul Smith (1946). After him are Lilian Gibbs (1870), Geoff Lees (1951), Archibald Geikie (1835), Mike Parkes (1931), Harold Mahony (1867), and Ron Atkinson (1939).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Martin ranks 494. Before him are Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905), Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (1868), Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1402), Stafford Cripps (1889), Ceol of Wessex (600), and Ruth Williams Khama (1923). After him are Cherie Blair (1954), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845), Andrew Fisher (1862), Lady Arbella Stuart (1575), Joseph Cook (1860), and Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593).

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