Writer

Richard Bentley

English classical scholar, critic and theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge

1662 - 1742

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Richard Bentley

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Bentley is the 5,056th most popular writer (down from 4,917th in 2024), the 3,987th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,584th in 2019) and the 429th most popular British Writer.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Richard Bentley ranks 5,056 out of 7,302. Before him are Oskar Pastior, Hervé Guibert, Robert Hugh Benson, Corinne Hofmann, Diomidis Kyriakos, and Mirjam Pressler. After him are Alexei Mateevici, Botho Strauß, Adolf Friedrich von Schack, Atiq Rahimi, Nicholas Evans, and Vladimir Makanin.

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Oskar Pastior
1927 - 2006
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 5,050
Hervé Guibert
1955 - 1991
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 5,051
Robert Hugh Benson
1871 - 1914
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 5,052
Corinne Hofmann
1960 - Present
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 5,053
Diomidis Kyriakos
1811 - 1869
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 5,054
Mirjam Pressler
1940 - 2019
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 5,055
Richard Bentley
1662 - 1742
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 5,056
Alexei Mateevici
1888 - 1917
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 5,057
Botho Strauß
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 5,058
Adolf Friedrich von Schack
1815 - 1894
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 5,059
Atiq Rahimi
1962 - Present
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 5,060
Nicholas Evans
1950 - 2022
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 5,061
Vladimir Makanin
1937 - 2017
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 5,062

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1662, Richard Bentley ranks 14. Before him are Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach, William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jan Frans van Bloemen, Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, and Sebastiano Mocenigo. After him are Matthew Henry, and Balaji Vishwanath. Among people deceased in 1742, Richard Bentley ranks 16. Before him are Magdalena Wilhelmine of Württemberg, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Carlos Seixas, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Willem 's Gravesande.

Others Born in 1662

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Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach
NOBLEMAN
1662 - 1696
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 8
William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
NOBLEMAN
1662 - 1728
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 9
Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
POLITICIAN
1662 - 1731
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 10
Jan Frans van Bloemen
PAINTER
1662 - 1749
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 11
Baltacı Mehmet Pasha
POLITICIAN
1662 - 1712
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 12
Sebastiano Mocenigo
POLITICIAN
1662 - 1732
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 13
Richard Bentley
WRITER
1662 - 1742
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 14
Matthew Henry
WRITER
1662 - 1714
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 15
Balaji Vishwanath
POLITICIAN
1662 - 1720
HPI: 54.41
Rank: 16

Others Deceased in 1742

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Magdalena Wilhelmine of Württemberg
POLITICIAN
1677 - 1742
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 10
Jean-Baptiste Dubos
WRITER
1670 - 1742
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 11
Carlos Seixas
COMPOSER
1704 - 1742
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 12
Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský
COMPOSER
1684 - 1742
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 13
John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
POLITICIAN
1677 - 1742
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 14
Willem 's Gravesande
MATHEMATICIAN
1688 - 1742
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 15
Richard Bentley
WRITER
1662 - 1742
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 16