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George Holyoake

1817 - 1906

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George Jacob Holyoake (13 April 1817 – 22 January 1906) was an English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor. He coined the terms secularism in 1851 and "jingoism" in 1878. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Holyoake has received more than 175,895 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). George Holyoake is the 5,983rd most popular writer (down from 4,913th in 2019), the 4,821st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,784th in 2019) and the 540th most popular British Writer.

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  • 180k

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  • 51.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, George Holyoake ranks 5,983 out of 7,302. Before him are Albert Sánchez Piñol, Tom Brokaw, Svetlana Makarovič, Edmund Gosse, William Bell Scott, and Vjenceslav Novak. After him are Francis Chichester, Jean Dutourd, Khushwant Singh, Liam O'Flaherty, Mihkel Veske, and Richard Russo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, George Holyoake ranks 84. Before him are Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Manuel Robles Pezuela, Lewis Armistead, Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin, George Henry Lewes, and Serafino Dubois. After him are Richard Spruce, LeRoy Pope Walker, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, and Benjamin Jowett. Among people deceased in 1906, George Holyoake ranks 76. Before him are Ferdinand von Saar, Aniceto Arce, Pedro Varela, Oscar Levertin, John Schofield, and Mary Putnam Jacobi. After him are Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Walter Buller, Richard Seddon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Varina Davis, and Eastman Johnson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Holyoake ranks 4,821 out of 8,785. Before him are Belle Moore (1894), William Bell Scott (1811), Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785), Lando Norris (1999), George Ezra (1993), and John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811). After him are Francis Chichester (1901), Richard Thompson (1949), Naomi Scott (1993), John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860), Laura Haddock (1985), and Daniel Harding (1975).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, George Holyoake ranks 540. Before him are William Cobbett (1763), Mina Loy (1882), Susan Cooper (1935), Hugh Blair (1718), Edmund Gosse (1849), and William Bell Scott (1811). After him are Francis Chichester (1901), Alex Garland (1970), Lucy Hawking (1969), David Storey (1933), Sarah Waters (1966), and Philippa Pearce (1920).

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