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Edward Cave

1691 - 1754

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Edward Cave (27 February 1691 – 10 January 1754) was an English printer, editor and publisher. He coined the term "magazine" for a periodical, founding The Gentleman's Magazine in 1731, and was the first publisher to successfully fashion a wide-ranging publication. The son of a cobbler, Cave was born in Newton near Rugby, Warwickshire, and attended Rugby School, but was expelled after being accused of stealing from the headmaster Henry Holyoake. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Cave has received more than 60,678 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Cave is the 315th most popular businessperson (down from 236th in 2019), the 2,178th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,804th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Businessperson.

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  • 61k

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  • 51.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Edward Cave ranks 315 out of 601. Before him are J. C. Jacobsen, Dustin Moskovitz, Arnon Milchan, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Pierre Omidyar, and Paul Castellano. After him are Andrea Agnelli, Lei Jun, Bob Iger, Suge Knight, David Koch, and Martin Winterkorn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1691, Edward Cave ranks 7. Before him are Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Philip Miller, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Mir Jafar. After him are Francesco Feo and Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach. Among people deceased in 1754, Edward Cave ranks 11. Before him are Maria Anna of Austria, Henry Fielding, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Jacopo Riccati, Henry Pelham, and Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este. After him are Nicolai Eigtved, Wu Jingzi, Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Philippe Néricault Destouches, James Gibbs, and Safdar Jang.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Cave ranks 2,178 out of 7,765. Before him are Christine McVie (1943), Reginald Doherty (1872), William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768), Joseph Larmor (1857), Norman McLaren (1914), and Lewis Gilbert (1920). After him are John Ford (1586), Nassau William Senior (1790), Ian Khama (1953), Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (1210), Toby Jones (1966), and Robert Morley (1908).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Edward Cave ranks 20. Before him are Vidal Sassoon (1928), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), B. C. Forbes (1880), Edward Colston (1636), Ken Aston (1915), and Mark Thatcher (1953). After him are Alfred Edwards (1850), Henry Cole (1808), Thomas Blake Glover (1838), William Knox D'Arcy (1849), Jim Marshall (1923), and John Houlding (1833).

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