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Fletcher Christian

1764 - 1793

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Fletcher Christian (25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793) was an English sailor who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, during which he seized command of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty from Lieutenant William Bligh. In 1787, Christian was appointed master's mate on Bounty, tasked with transporting breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies. Bligh subsequently named him acting-Lieutenant during the voyage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fletcher Christian has received more than 2,056,794 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Fletcher Christian is the 6,380th most popular politician (up from 6,757th in 2019), the 1,331st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,480th in 2019) and the 218th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fletcher Christian ranks 6,380 out of 15,577Before him are Otto Wächter, Constance of Castile, Duchess of Lancaster, Margaret, Countess of Anjou, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Mitsumasa Yonai, and Himiltrude. After him are Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony, Enrico Ferri, Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine, Arnulf III, Count of Flanders, Ibrahim Lodi, and Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Fletcher Christian ranks 8Before him are Ann Radcliffe, Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, José Gervasio Artigas, and Alexander Mackenzie. After him are Sophie de Condorcet, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Johann Gottfried Schadow, Nikolai Rezanov, and John Goodricke. Among people deceased in 1793, Fletcher Christian ranks 19Before him are Madame Roland, Alexander Roslin, Charles Bonnet, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Antoine Barnave, and John Hancock. After him are Jacques Cathelineau, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, John Hunter, Pietro Nardini, and Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Fletcher Christian ranks 1,331 out of 7,765Before him are C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), Mary Quant (1930), Julian Glover (1935), Seamus Heaney (1939), Walafrid Strabo (808), and Peter Burke (1937). After him are Gildas (500), John Boorman (1933), Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774), Rhys Ifans (1967), John Eliot Gardiner (1943), and Dominic Purcell (1970).

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