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Henry Shrapnel

1761 - 1842

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Lieutenant general Henry Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) was a British Army officer whose name has entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Shrapnel has received more than 583,210 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Henry Shrapnel is the 320th most popular inventor (down from 293rd in 2019), the 3,513th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,087th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henry Shrapnel ranks 320 out of 354Before him are Jozef Murgaš, Alexandre Alexeieff, Victor Hasselblad, Harry Brearley, Albrecht Berblinger, and Kirkpatrick Macmillan. After him are Georges Beuchat, Phil Ramone, Marion Donovan, Norman Joseph Woodland, Roland Moreno, and Per Georg Scheutz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Henry Shrapnel ranks 35Before him are Gottlob Ernst Schulze, John Moore, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Dorothea Jordan, Ludwig Abeille, and Jacob Hübner. After him are August Batsch, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Samuel Dexter, Albert Gallatin, Blasius Merrem, and Joshua Brookes. Among people deceased in 1842, Henry Shrapnel ranks 36Before him are Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Nodira, Wilhelm Gesenius, James Ivory, Aleksey Koltsov, and Letitia Christian Tyler. After him are William Ellery Channing, Archibald Menzies, Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, James Barbour, and Amos Eaton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Shrapnel ranks 3,513 out of 7,765Before him are Nigel Terry (1945), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), Joe Wright (1972), Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby (1841), and Barbara Windsor (1937). After him are Stanley Holloway (1890), Myra Hess (1890), Herbert Marshall (1890), Amira Casar (1971), Simon McBurney (1957), and William Camden (1551).

Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Henry Shrapnel ranks 55Before him are David Dunbar Buick (1854), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), William Friese-Greene (1855), Isaac Pitman (1813), Harry Brearley (1871), and Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835). After him are Barnes Wallis (1887), George Graham (1673), Arthur Wynne (1871), John Whitehurst (1713), Roger C. Field (1945), and Lawrence Hargrave (1850).