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Clements Markham

1830 - 1916

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Sir Clements Robert Markham (20 July 1830 – 30 January 1916) was an English geographer, explorer and writer. He was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) between 1863 and 1888, and later served as the Society's president for a further 12 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clements Markham has received more than 147,600 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Clements Markham is the 347th most popular explorer (down from 330th in 2019), the 3,122nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,975th in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

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  • 47.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Clements Markham ranks 347 out of 405. Before him are John McDouall Stuart, Pyotr Chikhachyov, John Wesley Powell, Edward Wilson, Juan de Fuca, and Frank Wild. After him are Henri Duveyrier, Ivan Moskvitin, Edward Belcher, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón, Dirk Hartog, and Louise Arner Boyd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Clements Markham ranks 54. Before him are Marianne North, Harriet Lane, Clémence Royer, Kálmán Tisza, Gustav Lange, and Juan Manuel Blanes. After him are Charles Wyville Thomson, Peter Arnold Heise, Karolina Světlá, Henry Bird, Viktor Madarász, and Daniel Oliver. Among people deceased in 1916, Clements Markham ranks 109. Before him are Albert Chmielowski, Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Ioannis Frangoudis, Lily Braun, Alfred Cogniaux, and Giuseppe Pitrè. After him are Charles Dawson, Germán Riesco, Sámuel Teleki, Antonin Mercié, Aeneas Mackintosh, and Maksim Kovalevsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Clements Markham ranks 3,122 out of 7,765. Before him are David Sylvian (1958), Steve Bloomer (1874), Richard Cobden (1804), Verney Lovett Cameron (1844), Joe Jackson (1954), and John Houlding (1833). After him are Christiane Amanpour (1958), Jonathan Nolan (1976), Thomas Bewick (1753), Vic Elford (1935), Paul Bernays (1888), and John Arthur Jarvis (1872).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Clements Markham ranks 45. Before him are John Biscoe (1794), William Smith (1790), Frederick William Beechey (1796), John McDouall Stuart (1815), Edward Wilson (1872), and Frank Wild (1873). After him are Edgar Evans (1876), John Gardner Wilkinson (1797), George Bass (1771), Luke Foxe (1586), Alfred Maudslay (1850), and John Marshall (1748).

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