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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

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 580,081 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jack Sheppard is the 428th most popular social activist (down from 362nd in 2019), the 3,345th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,922nd in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Social Activist.

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  • 16

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jack Sheppard ranks 428 out of 538Before him are Har Dayal, Lucy Stone, Mumia Abu-Jamal, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Neerja Bhanot, and Ruby Bridges. After him are David Reimer, Joseph Wresinski, Bagha Jatin, Gunnar Sønsteby, Olga Lepeshinskaya, and Charu Majumdar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1702, Jack Sheppard ranks 12Before him are Muhammad Shah, Legall de Kermeur, Sava Petrović, William Fermor, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Francesco Zuccarelli. After him is Enrichetta d'Este. Among people deceased in 1724, Jack Sheppard ranks 15Before 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 3,345 out of 7,765Before him are Johnny Claes (1916), Ian Abercrombie (1934), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), James Arthur (1988), Steve McQueen (1969), and Ralph H. Fowler (1889). After him are Gary Lewis (1957), Tony Kaye (1952), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), Brian Redman (1937), John Walter Gregory (1864), and Graeme Souness (1953).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Jack Sheppard ranks 29Before him are James Guillaume (1844), Donald Watson (1910), Venetia Burney (1918), Mary Dyer (1611), Mary Toft (1703), and Grey Owl (1888). After him are Octavia Hill (1838), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Annie Kenney (1879), Hereward the Wake (1035), Emily Hobhouse (1860), and Thomas Clarkson (1760).