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Elias Ashmole

1617 - 1692

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Elias Ashmole (23 May 1617 – 18 May 1692) was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer, freemason and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices. Ashmole was an antiquary with a strong Baconian leaning towards the study of nature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elias Ashmole has received more than 488,169 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Elias Ashmole is the 33rd most popular occultist (down from 32nd in 2019), the 1,960th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,677th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Occultist.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Elias Ashmole ranks 33 out of 41. Before him are Charles Webster Leadbeater, Nina Kulagina, Alice Bailey, Algernon Blackwood, Joséphin Péladan, and A. E. Waite. After him are Dion Fortune, Otto Witte, Israel Regardie, Tituba, Manly P. Hall, and Sergey Oldenburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1617, Elias Ashmole ranks 10. Before him are Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg, Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Leopoldo de' Medici, Adil Giray, and Emanuel de Witte. After him are Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony, Yun Hyu, John Michael Wright, Ralph Cudworth, Roshanara Begum, and Richard Lovelace. Among people deceased in 1692, Elias Ashmole ranks 7. Before him are Emanuel de Witte, Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck, Wang Fuzhi, Maria Antonia of Austria, Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons, and Giovanni Battista Vitali. After him are Cornelis Bloemaert, Heinrich Bach, Christian Louis I, Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken, Thomas Shadwell, and George Etherege.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elias Ashmole ranks 1,960 out of 8,785. Before him are John Hughlings Jackson (1835), Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694), Melita Norwood (1912), Mary Astell (1666), Joan Hickson (1906), and Rachel Kempson (1910). After him are George Frederic Watts (1817), Lindsay Kemp (1938), Ken Annakin (1914), Thomas Hicks (1876), Robert Conquest (1917), and Tom Sharpe (1928).

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Among OCCULTISTS In United Kingdom

Among occultists born in United Kingdom, Elias Ashmole ranks 10. Before him are Robert Fludd (1574), Michael Scot (1175), Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854), Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854), Alice Bailey (1880), and Algernon Blackwood (1869). After him are Dion Fortune (1890), and Israel Regardie (1907).

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