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George Hadley

1685 - 1768

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George Hadley (12 February 1685 – 28 June 1768) was an English lawyer and amateur meteorologist who proposed the atmospheric mechanism by which the trade winds are sustained, which is now named in his honour as Hadley circulation. As a key factor in ensuring that European sailing vessels reached North American shores, understanding the trade winds was becoming a matter of great importance at the time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Hadley has received more than 65,411 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). George Hadley is the 79th most popular lawyer (down from 63rd in 2019), the 3,849th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,818th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Lawyer.

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  • 65k

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  • 46.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, George Hadley ranks 79 out of 136. Before him are Merrick Garland, Mercedes Comaposada, Michael Cohen, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, Louise Arbour, and Clarence Darrow. After him are Gu Kailai, Ken Starr, Christian Gottfried Körner, A. V. Dicey, Doug Emhoff, and G. Gordon Liddy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1685, George Hadley ranks 23. Before him are Francesco Loredan, Dominikus Zimmermann, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, George Clifford III, and Jacob Theodor Klein.  Among people deceased in 1768, George Hadley ranks 20. Before him are Michel Blavet, Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Robert Simson, Giuseppe Simone Assemani, Princess Louisa of Great Britain, and Eggert Ólafsson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Hadley ranks 3,849 out of 8,785. Before him are Elizabeth Goudge (1900), Eric A. Havelock (1903), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), Frederick Sandys (1829), George Graham (1944), and Jim Kerr (1959). After him are Georges Passerieu (1885), Paul Anderson (1978), Grey Owl (1888), Curt Smith (1961), Spike Edney (1951), and David Burke (1934).

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Among LAWYERS In United Kingdom

Among lawyers born in United Kingdom, George Hadley ranks 5. Before him are Peter Benenson (1921), William Blackstone (1723), John Selden (1584), and Henry de Bracton (1210). After him are A. V. Dicey (1835), Karim Ahmad Khan (1970), and Philippe Sands (1960).

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