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Charles Kingsley

1819 - 1875

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Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Kingsley has received more than 576,672 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Charles Kingsley is the 3,112th most popular writer (down from 2,908th in 2019), the 2,313th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,193rd in 2019) and the 269th most popular British Writer.

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  • 580k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Kingsley ranks 3,112 out of 5,755. Before him are Léon Daudet, Alain Chartier, Jean Richepin, Gaston Rébuffat, Theodor Kallifatides, and Curt von Bardeleben. After him are Branwell Brontë, Branko Radičević, Cecil Day-Lewis, Hitoshi Igarashi, Theodore Bibliander, and László Polgár.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Charles Kingsley ranks 59. Before him are Maria Wodzińska, Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Lucile Grahn, and Eunice Newton Foote. After him are James Russell Lowell, Vatroslav Lisinski, Edwin Drake, Théodore Gouvy, Nicolae Bălcescu, and Marthinus Wessel Pretorius. Among people deceased in 1875, Charles Kingsley ranks 51. Before him are Louise Farrenc, Georg Herwegh, Prosper Guéranger, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Charles Grandison Finney, and Johann Karl Rodbertus. After him are Francisco Coll Guitart, Leopold III, Prince of Lippe, Richard Christopher Carrington, Carl Jakob Sundevall, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, and George Pickett.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Kingsley ranks 2,313 out of 7,765. Before him are Samuel Morland (1625), Würzel (1949), Caradoc (470), Bob Klose (1945), Frank Finlay (1926), and Jamie Vardy (1987). After him are Maryam d'Abo (1960), Branwell Brontë (1817), John Foxe (1516), David Mumford (1937), Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (877), and James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Charles Kingsley ranks 269. Before him are Richard Hammond (1969), Jack Higgins (1929), Winston Graham (1908), John Stott (1921), Wilfred Owen (1893), and John Evelyn (1620). After him are Branwell Brontë (1817), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Lytton Strachey (1880), Ford Madox Ford (1873), Walter Map (1140), and Nevil Shute (1899).

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