# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-nicholas-arnold
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:54:30.879Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-nicholas-arnold"
name: "Edwin Nicholas Arnold"
slug: "edwin-nicholas-arnold"
description: "Edwin Nicholas Arnold was a British herpetologist and the Curator of Herpetology at the Natural History Museum, London. Arnold made seminal contributions to the herpetology of Europe and North Africa, especially on geckos and lizards of the family Lacertidae. He discovered and described 36 species and 4 subspecies of reptiles, and wrote A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe, which appeared over multiple editions. Arnold died of heart failure on 23 September 2023, at the age of 82."
tagline: "British herpetologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1940-10-16"
deathDate: "2023-09-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump