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Nicholas Aylward Vigors. Painting, oil on canvas, of a toucan by Vigors, 1831. Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785 – 26 October 1840) was an Irish zoologist and politician. He popularized the classification of birds on the basis of the quinarian system .
Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1785?–1840), zoologist, soldier, and liberal MP, was probably born in 1785 (although some sources claim 1787) at Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow, eldest surviving son of Capt. Nicholas Aylward Vigors, 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment, of Old Leighlin and Belmont, Co. Carlow, and his first wife, Catherine (d.
Vigors, Nicholas Aylward, an eminent zoologist, was born at Old Leighlin, near Carlow, in 1787. He was educated at Oxford, where he published, in 1810, An Enquiry into the Nature and Extent of Poetic Licence. In 1809 he entered the Guards as an ensign, and was present at the action of Barossa in 1811.
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Vigors, Nicholas Aylward, an eminent zoologist, was born at Old Leighlin, near Carlow, in 1787. He was educated at Oxford, where he published, in 1810, An Enquiry into the Nature and Extent of Poetic Licence. In 1809 he entered the Guards as an ensign, and was present at the action of Barossa in 1811. On his return home, he quitted the army ...
Nicholas Vigors FRS (1785 – 1840) Zoologist. Nicholas Aylward Vigors was born in Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow to a wealthy landowning family. After studying at Oxford and Lincoln ’s Inn , he joined the Grenadier Guards and was severely wounded in the Peninsular War. He was invalided home, returned to Oxford , and graduated BA in 1817.
Dec 28, 2020 · VIGORS, NICHOLAS AYLWARD (1785–1840), zoologist, born at Old Leighlin in 1785, was son of Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1755–1828) of Old Leighlin and Bellmount, co. Carlow, by his first wife, Catharine, daughter of Solomon Richards of Solsborough, Wexford.
Vigors was born at Old Leighlin, County Carlow on 1785 as first son from Capt. Nicholas Aylward Vigors which served in 29th Regiment and, his first wife, Cat...
