# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-matthew
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:12:08.211Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-matthew"
name: "Patrick Matthew"
slug: "patrick-matthew"
description: "Patrick Matthew was a Scottish grain merchant, fruit farmer, forester, and landowner, who contributed to the understanding of horticulture, silviculture, and agriculture in general, with a focus on maintaining the British navy and feeding new colonies. He published the basic concept of natural selection as a mechanism in evolutionary adaptation and speciation and species constancy or stasis in 1831 in a book called Naval Timber and Arboriculture in which he uses the phrase \"the natural process of selection\". He did not further publicly develop his ideas until after Darwin and Wallace published their theories of evolution by natural selection in 1859. It has been suggested that Darwin and/or Wallace had encountered Matthew's earlier work, but there is no evidence of this. After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin became aware of Matthew's 1831 book and subsequent editions of The Origin include an acknowledgment that Matthew \"gives precisely the same view on the origin of species as that\" given in the \"present volume\"."
tagline: "British scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Patrick_Matthew.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1790-10-20"
deathDate: "1874-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.578947368421052
  historical:           8.544637333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "প্যাট্রিক ম্যাথিউ"
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    title: "Patrick Matthew"
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    title: "Patrick Matthew"
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    title: "پاټريک متيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump