Robert Wight (6 July 1796 – 26 May 1872) was a Scottish surgeon in the East India Company, whose professional career was spent entirely in southern India...
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Life and Work of Robert Wight, provided the definitive biography of Wight. Book 2, Botanical Drawings by Rungia & Govindoo: the Wight Collection. Book...
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The Isle of Wight Festival is a British music festival which takes place annually in Newport on the Isle of Wight, England. It was originally a counterculture...
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Coccinia (category Taxa named by Robert Wight)
Cucurbitaceae Subfamily: Cucurbitoideae Tribe: Benincaseae Genus: Coccinia Wight & Arn. Species C. abyssinica C. adoensis C. barteri C. grandiflora C. grandis...
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The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ WYTE) is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, 2 to 5 miles (3 to 8 kilometres) off the coast...
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on the topic and instead communicated notes to botanists such as Robert Wight. Wight notes that: I am indebted to Mr. Jerdon for this interesting little...
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Emilia sonchifolia (category Taxa named by Robert Wight)
Emilia Species: E. sonchifolia Binomial name Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC. ex Wight Synonyms List Cacalia sonchifolia Hort ex L. Crassocephalum sonchifolium...
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technician, a former petty officer rating in the United States Navy Robert Wight (1796–1872), in botanical taxonomy, abbreviated Wt Washington Territory...
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engineer Robert Wight (1796–1872), Scottish surgeon and botanist Robert Whyte (born 1955), Australian author, editor and journalist Robert Whyte (judge)...
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fauna. Silent Valley National Park was explored in 1847 by the botanist Robert Wight. It is located in the border of Mannarkkad Taluk of Palakkad district...
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of the Wight or the West Wight, a popular tourist area. Freshwater is close to steep chalk cliffs. It was the birthplace of physicist Robert Hooke and...
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revenue, climbed up the hills from Devadanapatti. In 1836, botanist Robert Wight visited Kodaikanal and recorded his observations in the 1837 Madras Journal...
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American author Paul Wight, ring name Big Show (born 1972), American professional wrestler Peter Wight (born 1950), English actor Robert Wight (1796–1872), Scottish...
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Ziziphus nummularia (category Taxa named by Robert Wight)
Rosales Family: Rhamnaceae Genus: Ziziphus Species: Z. nummularia Binomial name Ziziphus nummularia (Burm.f.) Wight & Arn. Synonyms Ziziphus rotundifolia...
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is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of the Isle of Wight in England. Lord Mottistone was the last lord lieutenant to hold the title...
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botanical illustrator, noted for producing a large number of images for Robert Wight's books on Indian flora. The Raju family were painters of the Kshatriya...
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Big Show (redirect from Paul Wight, Jr.)
Paul Donald Wight II (born February 8, 1972) is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), as a wrestler...
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Vachellia farnesiana (category Taxa named by Robert Wight)
Australia. In the Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis of 1834, Wight & Arnott, attempted to split the burgeoning genus Acacia by moving a number...
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Wight Jr. (born c. 1971) is a Scottish racing driver, best known for his success in hillclimbing, where he has won two British championships. Wight began...
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Isle of Wight Festival 1970 was a music festival held between 26 and 30 August 1970 at Afton Down, an area on the western side of the Isle of Wight in England...
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University of Edinburgh. The plant genus Cleghornia was named after him by Robert Wight. Cleghorn was born in Madras on 9 August 1820, where his father, Peter...
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Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in 1834 as a part of the Robert Wight work Contributions to the Botany of India. List of Carex species "Carex...
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Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ WYTE) was a constituency that was last represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2017 until 2024 by Bob Seely...
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109 by Vishnupersaud and one work by Rungiah (the artist employed by Robert Wight); the rest of the plates were by John Clark and three by William Griffith...
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Millettia (category Taxa named by Robert Wight)
vegetation. In 1834, in Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis Robert Wight and George Arnott Walker-Arnott describe Millettia as: Calyx cup-shaped...
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Bob Seely (redirect from Robert William Henry Seely)
2024 general election, he stood for the new Isle of Wight West constituency but was defeated. Robert Seely was born in 1966 in Marylebone, London. He was...
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Elaeocarpus munroi (category Taxa named by Robert Wight)
to 2,000 metres elevation. It was first formally described in 1838 by Robert Wight who gave it the name Monocera munroii in his book Illustrations of Indian...
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Robert James Martin Wight (26 November 1913 – 15 July 1972) was one of the foremost British scholars of international relations in the twentieth century...
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William Robert Wight (April 12, 1922 – May 17, 2007) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played from 1946 through 1958 for the New...
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and named by Robert Wight and commemorates Flora Jerdon, wife of Thomas C. Jerdon. It grows on rocks and as an epiphyte on trees. Wight, R. (1846). Icones...
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