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James Oglethorpe

1696 - 1785

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Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 – 30 June 1785) was a British Army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North 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 1,081,744 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). James Oglethorpe is the 16,453rd most popular politician (down from 15,022nd in 2019), the 4,878th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,476th in 2019) and the 576th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James Oglethorpe ranks 16,453 out of 19,576. Before him are Henning Christophersen, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Paulo d'Eça Leal, Pablo Arosemena, Eduard Novák, and Eanfrith of Bernicia. After him are Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, James Scullin, Alexander Acosta, José Montilla, Panagiotis Poulitsas, and Richard Rush.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1696, James Oglethorpe ranks 19. Before him are Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Marco Foscarini, Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen, Shah Jahan II, Henry Home, Lord Kames, and Maurice Greene.  Among people deceased in 1785, James Oglethorpe ranks 25. Before him are Gottfried August Homilius, Stephen Hopkins, John Belchier, Ventura Rodríguez, János Sajnovics, and George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Oglethorpe ranks 4,878 out of 8,785. Before him are John Hutton Balfour (1808), Philippa Pearce (1920), Diana Wynyard (1906), Richard Meinertzhagen (1878), Chris Dreja (1945), and Richard K. Guy (1916). After him are Malcolm Sargent (1895), Colin Greenwood (1969), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875), John Barrowman (1967), Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin (1866), and Luke Fildes (1843).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, James Oglethorpe ranks 576. Before him are Reginald McKenna (1863), Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785), John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811), John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860), Charles Rosher (1885), and Mackenzie Bowell (1823). After him are Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536), Herbert Morrison (1888), James Cleverly (1969), George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784), Samuel Plimsoll (1824), and Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762).

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