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Benjamin Jowett

1817 - 1893

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Benjamin Jowett (, modern variant ; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was an English writer, tutor, administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, theologian, Anglican cleric, and translator of Plato and Thucydides. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Jowett has received more than 260,359 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Jowett is the 6,184th most popular writer, the 5,837th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 642nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.60

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  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Benjamin Jowett ranks 6,184 out of 5,755Before him are Carlos Salem, Neil Strauss, Matthew Weiner, Jonathan Lethem, Peter Hitchens, and Aleš Debeljak. After him are Carol J. Adams, Andrea Levy, MacKinlay Kantor, Bryan Fuller, K. A. Applegate, and Peter Hedges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Benjamin Jowett ranks 79Before him are Thomas Thomson, Richard Spruce, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Alfred Francis Russell, Manuel Robles Pezuela, and Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen.  Among people deceased in 1893, Benjamin Jowett ranks 80Before him are John Rae, Aleksandra Potanina, Edmund Kirby Smith, John Ballance, William Fox, and Francis Parkman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Jowett ranks 5,837 out of 7,765Before him are Rupert Wyatt (1972), Nigel Winterburn (1963), Gary Pallister (1965), Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough (1880), Wes Morgan (1984), and Jessica Barden (1992). After him are Justin Chancellor (1971), Alistair Darling (1953), Andrea Levy (1956), Andy Sneap (1969), Peter Thompson (1942), and Tom Cullen (1985).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Jowett ranks 642Before him are Robert Bridges (1844), Sebastian Faulks (1953), Eric Linklater (1899), Sabine Baring-Gould (1834), Tom Rob Smith (1979), and John Mortimer (1923). After him are Andrea Levy (1956), Anna Burns (1962), Laurie Lee (1914), Charley Boorman (1966), Edwin Morgan (1920), and Jo Walton (1964).