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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.
Nicholas Aylward Vigors (Old Leighlin, condado de Carlow, 1785 – 26 de outubro de 1840) foi um zoólogo e político irlandês. Vigors estudou no Trinity College, em Oxford. Serviu no exército durante a Guerra Peninsular 1809-1811 e retornou para Oxford, graduando-se em 1817.
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.
Nicholas Aylward Vigors, ganet d'an 12 a viz Kerzu 1785 e Sean Leithgleann (Kontelezh Ceatharlach) ha marvet d'ar 26 a viz Here 1840 e Londrez , a oa ul loenoniour hag ur politikour iwerzhonat
Nicholas Aylward Vigors. 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.
The quinarian system was a method of zoological classification which was popular in the mid 19th century, especially among British naturalists. It was largely developed by the entomologist William Sharp Macleay in 1819. [1] The system was further promoted in the works of Nicholas Aylward Vigors, William John Swainson and Johann Jakob ...
Vigors was a ‘quinarian’, believing in the geometric ordering of species, orders and families into sets of five. He employed his quinarian approach to overhaul the classification of birds. He wrote extensively on birds, mammals and insects in the Zoological Journal, which he edited from 1827 – 1834.
