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James Oglethorpe

1696 - 1785

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James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 – 30 June 1785) was a British soldier, Member of Parliament, and philanthropist, and the founder of the Province of Georgia in what was then colonial-era British America. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's "worthy poor" in the New World, initially focusing on those in debtors' prisons. Born to a prominent British family, Oglethorpe left college in England and a British Army commission to travel to France, where he attended a military academy before fighting under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Austro-Turkish War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Oglethorpe has received more than 1,025,441 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). James Oglethorpe is the 15,075th most popular politician (down from 13,735th in 2019), the 4,485th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,303rd in 2019) and the 542nd most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James Oglethorpe ranks 15,075 out of 15,577. Before him are Pedro Gual Escandón, Willy Bandholz, Pantaleon, Hannes Swoboda, Francesco Rutelli, and Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata. After him are Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, Akie Abe, David Owen, Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, Salou Djibo, and Algernon Sidney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1696, James Oglethorpe ranks 17. Before him are Marco Foscarini, Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Francesca Cuzzoni, Shah Jahan II, Henry Home, Lord Kames, and Maurice Greene.  Among people deceased in 1785, James Oglethorpe ranks 22. Before him are Johan Herman Wessel, Gottfried August Homilius, Ali-Morad Khan Zand, Johann Gerhard König, Ventura Rodríguez, and Stephen Hopkins. After him are John Belchier and George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Oglethorpe ranks 4,485 out of 7,765. Before him are Simon Baron-Cohen (1958), Andy Fraser (1952), Sam Taylor-Johnson (1967), Harry Blackstaffe (1868), Alasdair Gray (1934), and John Le Mesurier (1912). After him are Iwan Rheon (1985), David Owen (1938), Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831), Algernon Sidney (1623), Albert Ball (1896), and Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, James Oglethorpe ranks 542. Before him are Cherie Blair (1954), Margaret Beckett (1943), Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (1951), Owain Gwynedd (1100), Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705), and Hugh Gaitskell (1906). After him are David Owen (1938), Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831), Algernon Sidney (1623), Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785), Douglas Hurd (1930), and Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421).

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