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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 64,847 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Cave is the 304th most popular businessperson (up from 315th in 2019), the 2,004th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,172nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Businessperson.

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  • 65k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Edward Cave ranks 304 out of 847. Before him are Arthur Guinness, Douglas Tompkins, Frits Philips, Marc Rich, Paul Castellano, and Ida Straus. After him are François Coty, Daniel Peter, Gerard Philips, Stefan Persson, Alfred Edwards, and Amadeo Giannini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1691, Edward Cave ranks 8. Before him are Philip Miller, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, Mir Jafar, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Francesco Feo. After him are Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz, Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Alessandro Galilei, and George Lillo. Among people deceased in 1754, Edward Cave ranks 10. Before him are Ludvig Holberg, Maria Anna of Austria, Henry Fielding, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Jacopo Riccati, and Henry Pelham. After him are Nicolai Eigtved, Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Wu Jingzi, Friedrich von Hagedorn, and Philippe Néricault Destouches.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Cave ranks 2,004 out of 8,785. Before him are Eric Woolfson (1945), John Butler Yeats (1839), Michael Dummett (1925), Joe Davis (1901), Unity Mitford (1914), and Chas Chandler (1938). After him are John Wood (1930), Reg Park (1928), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Lady Hester Stanhope (1776), Æthelbald of Mercia (700), and Ed Sheeran (1991).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Edward Cave ranks 17. Before him are Ron Dennis (1947), Frank Williams (1942), Vidal Sassoon (1928), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), David Icke (1952), and John Cockerill (1790). After him are Alfred Edwards (1850), B. C. Forbes (1880), Thomas Blake Glover (1838), Mark Thatcher (1953), Henry Cole (1808), and Ken Aston (1915).

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