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Christopher Smart

1722 - 1771

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Christopher Smart (11 April 1722 – 20 May 1771) was an English poet. He was a major contributor to two popular magazines, The Midwife and The Student, and a friend to influential cultural icons like Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding. Smart, a high church Anglican, was widely known throughout London. Smart was infamous as the pseudonymous midwife "Mrs. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Christopher Smart is the 6,327th most popular writer (up from 6,865th in 2024), the 5,531st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 6,419th in 2019) and the 611th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Christopher Smart ranks 6,327 out of 7,302. Before him are Sheila Jeffreys, Andrew Davies, Barbara Pym, Vikram Seth, Karin Alvtegen, and John Clellon Holmes. After him are Rosa María Britton, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Max Hastings, Thomas Lodge, Stephen Vincent Benét, and J. G. Farrell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Christopher Smart ranks 25. Before him are Petrus Camper, Nicolas Luckner, Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen, John Burgoyne, Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel, and Anna Louisa Karsch.  Among people deceased in 1771, Christopher Smart ranks 23. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Graun, Konrad Ernst Ackermann, William Fermor, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Jan Klemens Branicki, and Sydney Parkinson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Christopher Smart ranks 5,533 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles James Napier (1782), Andrew Davies (1936), Barbara Pym (1913), Ellen MacArthur (1976), Fanny Kemble (1809), and Sam Ryder (1989). After him are Jonny Evans (1988), Toby Kebbell (1982), William Morgan (1547), Edmund Andros (1637), W. T. Tutte (1917), and Molly Peters (1942).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Christopher Smart ranks 611. Before him are Polly Samson (1962), Brian Stableford (1948), Hammond Innes (1913), Sheila Jeffreys (1948), Andrew Davies (1936), and Barbara Pym (1913). After him are Max Hastings (1945), Thomas Lodge (1558), J. G. Farrell (1935), Philip Massinger (1583), China Miéville (1972), and Lascelles Abercrombie (1881).

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