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Henry Cole

1808 - 1882

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Sir Henry Cole FRSA (15 July 1808 – 15 April 1882) was an English civil servant and inventor who facilitated many innovations in commerce, education and the arts in the 19th century in the United Kingdom. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Cole has received more than 418,071 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Cole is the 397th most popular businessperson (down from 352nd in 2019), the 2,645th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,425th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Businessperson.

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  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Henry Cole ranks 397 out of 847Before him are Adolf Merckle, Malcom McLean, Toto Wolff, David Geffen, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Peter Thiel. After him are Eddie Jordan, Pavel Durov, Katharine Graham, Tatsumi Kimishima, Li Ning, and Robert Monroe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Henry Cole ranks 46Before him are Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Caterina Scarpellini, James Nasmyth, Lysander Spooner, and August von Werder. After him are Michael William Balfe, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Salmon P. Chase, Pyotr Chikhachyov, Franz Theodor Kugler, and Sofia Adlersparre. Among people deceased in 1882, Henry Cole ranks 55Before him are John William Draper, Johann Benedict Listing, Đuro Daničić, Giovanni Lanza, Carl Robert Jakobson, and Theodor Kullak. After him are Antoine Bussy, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Juraj Dobrila, Franz von Schober, Julius Hübner, and Alexander Gardner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Cole ranks 2,645 out of 8,785Before him are A. J. P. Taylor (1906), Agnes Baden-Powell (1858), Thomas Gage (1719), Ian Wright (1963), Phil Campbell (1961), and Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892). After him are Dick Parry (1942), Joey Dunlop (1952), Ernest Mason Satow (1843), Constance Lloyd (1858), Georgette Heyer (1902), and Dave Legeno (1963).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Henry Cole ranks 22Before him are John Cockerill (1790), Edward Cave (1691), Alfred Edwards (1850), B. C. Forbes (1880), Thomas Blake Glover (1838), and Mark Thatcher (1953). After him are Ken Aston (1915), William Knox D'Arcy (1849), Edward Colston (1636), Jim Marshall (1923), Jim Ratcliffe (1952), and Angus Ogilvy (1928).