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Hugh Clapperton

1788 - 1827

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Bain Hugh Clapperton (18 May 1788 – 13 April 1827) was a Scottish naval officer and explorer of West and Central Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugh Clapperton has received more than 88,357 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Hugh Clapperton is the 421st most popular explorer (down from 392nd in 2019), the 3,980th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,691st in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 88k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Hugh Clapperton ranks 421 out of 498. Before him are Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Richard Maack, Alexander Burnes, Valerian Albanov, Lachlan Macquarie, and Boyd Alexander. After him are Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, John Colter, Charles John Andersson, Alfred Maudslay, George Nares, and Sverre Hassel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Hugh Clapperton ranks 54. Before him are Gheorghe Asachi, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Mikhail Shchepkin, Adoniram Judson, Károly Kisfaludy, and Edwin Atherstone. After him are Charles Robert Cockerell, William Henry Smyth, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker, John Canfield Spencer, Prideaux John Selby, and Sarah Josepha Hale. Among people deceased in 1827, Hugh Clapperton ranks 34. Before him are Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Countess Friederike von Schlieben, Henry Salt, János Bihari, François Fournier-Sarlovèze, and José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi. After him are Charles Willson Peale, Rufus King, and Israel Pickens.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Clapperton ranks 3,980 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Linley the younger (1756), Brian Henton (1946), Kenneth More (1914), Trevor Taylor (1936), Tony Barton (1937), and Ron Tauranac (1925). After him are Bart McGhee (1899), R. M. Ballantyne (1825), Robert Jameson (1774), James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife (1929), George Edwards (1694), and Lisa Stansfield (1966).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Hugh Clapperton ranks 52. Before him are John McDouall Stuart (1815), Christopher Middleton (1690), Tobias Furneaux (1735), Alexander Burnes (1805), Lachlan Macquarie (1762), and Boyd Alexander (1873). After him are Alfred Maudslay (1850), George Nares (1831), Luke Foxe (1586), Edward John Eyre (1815), George Back (1796), and Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764).

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