WRITER

Frederick Marryat

1792 - 1848

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Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer and a novelist. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Marryat has received more than 269,755 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Marryat is the 2,628th most popular writer (down from 2,051st in 2019), the 1,948th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,616th in 2019) and the 216th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Peter Simple
Fiction, Naval History, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
1834
Mr. Midshipman Easy
Fiction, Naval History, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
1836
Jacob Faithful
Accessible book
1834
The pacha of many tales
Accessible book
1835
A diary in America
Description and travel, Social life and customs, Indians of North America
1839
The Children of the New Forest
Accessible book, Fiction, Great Britain Civil War, 1642-1649
1855

Page views of Frederick Marryats by language

Over the past year Frederick Marryat has had the most page views in the with 31,495 views, followed by German (6,798), and Russian (5,202). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (197.50%), Basque (71.54%), and Portuguese (44.68%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frederick Marryat ranks 2,628 out of 7,302. Before him are Samad Vurgun, Richard Wurmbrand, Neil Simon, Waldemar Bonsels, Orson Scott Card, and Abraham ibn Daud. After him are Józef Czapski, Matthias Claudius, Hella Haasse, Tian Han, Eric Carle, and Censorinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Frederick Marryat ranks 31. Before him are Francisco de Paula Santander, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Manuel Oribe, Andrés de Santa Cruz, Mangas Coloradas, and Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Ferdinand Christian Baur, Gustav Schwab, Roderick Murchison, Moritz Hauptmann, Jacques Ignace Hittorff, and Lev Perovski. Among people deceased in 1848, Frederick Marryat ranks 33. Before him are Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, Keisai Eisen, Christen Købke, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, Pellegrino Rossi, and Robert Darwin. After him are Jean-Baptiste Debret, Takizawa Bakin, Pierre Wantzel, Joseph Görres, Robert Blum, and Manto Mavrogenous.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Marryat ranks 1,948 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Darwin (1766), Peter Crouch (1981), F. H. Bradley (1846), Charles Kay Ogden (1889), John Cockerill (1790), and John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859). After him are Alan Stacey (1933), Mary Ward (1585), Harold Bride (1890), Stuart Lewis-Evans (1930), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), and Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Frederick Marryat ranks 216. Before him are Arthur Young (1741), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Gerald Gardner (1884), George Whitefield (1714), Tobias Smollett (1721), and John Wyndham (1903). After him are Mary Astell (1666), Tom Sharpe (1928), Edith Pargeter (1913), Herbert Read (1893), William Smith (1813), and Peter James (1948).

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