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Jack Sheppard

1702 - 1724

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John "Jack" Sheppard (4 March 1702 – 16 November 1724), or "Honest Jack", was a notorious English thief and prison escapee of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter, but began committing theft and burglary in 1723 with little more than a year of his training to complete. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724, but escaped four times from prison, making him notorious, though popular with the poorer classes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Sheppard has received more than 623,551 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Sheppard is the 468th most popular social activist (down from 428th in 2019), the 3,299th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,337th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jack Sheppard ranks 468 out of 840. Before him are Shivakumara Swami, Megumi Yokota, Dewi Sartika, Leo Deutsch, Osvaldo Hurtado, and Lev Chernyi. After him are Charu Majumdar, Eugen Drewermann, Giuseppe Impastato, Ted Grant, Parashqevi Qiriazi, and Ela Bhatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1702, Jack Sheppard ranks 13. Before him are Muhammad Shah, Sava Petrović, Francesco Zuccarelli, Jacques Aved, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and William Fermor. After him is Enrichetta d'Este. Among people deceased in 1724, Jack Sheppard ranks 15. Before him are Benedetto Luti, Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Glückel of Hameln, Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Johann Theile, and Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack Sheppard ranks 3,299 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Blagden (1748), Ajahn Brahm (1951), Tony Kaye (1952), James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797), Roland Orzabal (1961), and Gilbert Adair (1944). After him are Matthew Hopkins (1620), John Hutchinson (1884), Tommy Cooper (1921), David MacMillan (1968), Lita Ford (1958), and Ronald Knox (1888).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Jack Sheppard ranks 29. Before him are James Guillaume (1844), Venetia Burney (1918), Mary Dyer (1611), Josephine Butler (1828), Donald Watson (1910), and Mary Toft (1703). After him are Hereward the Wake (1035), Grey Owl (1888), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Octavia Hill (1838), Emily Hobhouse (1860), and Annie Kenney (1879).

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