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Izaak Walton

1593 - 1683

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Izaak Walton (baptised 21 September 1593 – 15 December 1683) was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler (1653), he also wrote a number of short biographies including one of his friend John Donne. They have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives. Born at Stafford around 1593, Walton moved to London in his teens, where he worked as a linen draper. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Izaak Walton is the 6,109th most popular writer (down from 6,041st in 2024), the 5,164th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,915th in 2019) and the 563rd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Izaak Walton ranks 6,109 out of 7,302. Before him are Robinson Jeffers, Su Tong, Terence Rattigan, Ralf König, Kevin Kelly, and Katherine Pancol. After him are Jean-Denis Bredin, Pauline Baynes, John Betjeman, Dorothy E. Smith, Federico Moccia, and Frank Schätzing.

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Among people born in 1593, Izaak Walton ranks 18. Before him are Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg, George Herbert, William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Sultan Agung of Mataram, Jean de Brébeuf, and Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford.  Among people deceased in 1683, Izaak Walton ranks 17. Before him are Juraj Križanić, John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, John Owen, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, Algernon Sidney, and Robert Morison.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Izaak Walton ranks 5,166 out of 8,785. Before him are Davey Boy Smith (1962), John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon (1873), Paul Banks (1978), Dave Gibbons (1949), Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946), and Wendy Smith-Sly (1959). After him are Pauline Baynes (1922), John Betjeman (1906), Dorothy E. Smith (1926), Raymond Briggs (1934), John Garstang (1876), and Howard Kendall (1946).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Izaak Walton ranks 563. Before him are Hugh Blair (1718), Dora Marsden (1882), Stella Gibbons (1902), Emilia Lanier (1569), Mina Loy (1882), and Terence Rattigan (1911). After him are Pauline Baynes (1922), John Betjeman (1906), Dorothy E. Smith (1926), William Bell Scott (1811), David Mitchell (1969), and Paul Scott (1920).

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