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Arthur Phillip

1738 - 1814

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Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales. Phillip was educated at Greenwich Hospital School from June 1751 until December 1753. He then became an apprentice on the whaling ship Fortune. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Phillip has received more than 1,004,481 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Arthur Phillip is the 8,719th most popular politician (up from 8,752nd in 2019), the 1,841st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,929th in 2019) and the 289th most popular British Politician.

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  • 40

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  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Arthur Phillip ranks 8,719 out of 15,577. Before him are Joseph Luns, Roman Malinovsky, Manuel II of Trebizond, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Charles Curtis, and William I of Provence. After him are Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, Alvise I Mocenigo, Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, Viktoria Brezhneva, Stephen the Posthumous, and Yangwon of Goguryeo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1738, Arthur Phillip ranks 14. Before him are Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Ethan Allen, Thomas Abbt, Johann Hermann, Aleijadinho, and William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland. After him are Jacques François Dugommier, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Jacques Delille, Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Richard Montgomery. Among people deceased in 1814, Arthur Phillip ranks 19. Before him are Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti, Georg Joseph Vogler, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, Aleijadinho, and Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto. After him are William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, Elbridge Gerry, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, and Johan Tobias Sergel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Phillip ranks 1,841 out of 7,765. Before him are James Stirling (1692), Charles Joughin (1878), Anne Lister (1791), Jimmy Somerville (1961), Raymond Williams (1921), and Arthur Percival (1887). After him are John Webster (1578), George Grenville (1712), Ronald Colman (1891), Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355), Hamnet Shakespeare (1585), and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Arthur Phillip ranks 289. Before him are Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390), Sadiq Khan (1970), Reginald Johnston (1874), Spencer Perceval (1762), Henry Percy (1364), and Anne Lister (1791). After him are George Grenville (1712), Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355), Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478), Princess Mary of Great Britain (1723), John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845), and Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693).

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