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Charles Booth

1840 - 1916

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Charles James Booth (30 March 1840 – 23 November 1916) was a British shipowner, Comtean positivist, social researcher, and reformer, best known for his innovative philanthropic studies on working-class life in London towards the end of the 19th century. During the 1860s Booth became interested in the philosophy of Auguste Comte, the founder of modern sociology, and converted to his Religion of Humanity, affiliated with members of the London Positivist Society, and wrote positivist prayers. He was captivated by Comte's idea that in the future, scientific industrialists would be in control of the social leadership instead of the church ministers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Booth has received more than 11,803 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Charles Booth is the 14,937th most popular politician (down from 14,186th in 2019), the 3,824th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,885th in 2019) and the 501st most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles Booth ranks 14,937 out of 19,576. Before him are Ralph Metcalfe, Anahita Ratebzad, Artur Văitoianu, Merav Michaeli, Ján Kubiš, and Itti-Marduk-balatu. After him are Željko Šturanović, Fred Ramdat Misier, Gaius Sallustius Passienus Crispus, Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah, Nicolás Lindley López, and Sheila Dikshit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Charles Booth ranks 85. Before him are Yaa Asantewaa, William Henry Conley, Simeon Solomon, Jeanna Bauck, Ghazaros Aghayan, and John Philip Holland. After him are Franz Mertens, Édouard Vaillant, Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Jakub Arbes, American Horse, and Richard Knill Freeman. Among people deceased in 1916, Charles Booth ranks 129. Before him are Paul von Plehwe, Leo Anton Karl de Ball, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Germán Riesco, Maksim Kovalevsky, and Adolph Frank. After him are Alexander Voeikov, Alfred Cogniaux, Gorch Fock, Guido Romano, Lorenzo Latorre, and Mary Everest Boole.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Booth ranks 3,824 out of 8,785. Before him are James Wilson (1742), Anne V. Coates (1925), Freddie Jones (1927), Clifford Curzon (1907), Phyllis Johnson (1886), and Bernard Bosanquet (1848). After him are Ben Chaplin (1969), Peter Scott (1909), David Marshall Lang (1924), Tobias Furneaux (1735), Patricia Hayes (1909), and Vincent Nichols (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Charles Booth ranks 501. Before him are Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743), Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132), Jane Marcet (1769), John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (1431), Andrew Fisher (1862), and James Wilson (1742). After him are Paul Radmilovic (1886), Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea (1810), Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866), Nicola Sturgeon (1970), Lambert Simnel (1477), and Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (1000).

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