ECONOMIST

James Wilson

1805 - 1860

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James Wilson (3 June 1805 – 11 August 1860) was a Scottish businessman, economist, and Liberal politician who founded The Economist weekly and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which merged with Standard Bank in 1969 to form Standard Chartered. He was the first Finance Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council from December 1859 until his death in August 1860. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Wilson has received more than 521,223 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. James Wilson is the 339th most popular economist (down from 309th in 2019), the 4,295th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,910th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, James Wilson ranks 339 out of 414. Before him are Henry Charles Carey, Gunter Pauli, Robert Rubin, Armen Alchian, W. Michael Blumenthal, and Jacob Viner. After him are Henryk Grossman, Abel Aganbegyan, José Ángel Gurría, Sri Mulyani, Don Patinkin, and Erik Lindahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, James Wilson ranks 73. Before him are Tomás Villalba, Tomás Frías, Alexander Burnes, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, William Harrison Ainsworth, and Samuel Palmer. After him are Michael Sars, Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz, Horatio Greenough, Angelina Grimké, Samuel Ryan Curtis, and Frederick Denison Maurice. Among people deceased in 1860, James Wilson ranks 61. Before him are William Martin Leake, Christian Gmelin, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, and Juan Rafael Mora Porras. After him are Casimiro de Abreu, Carl Edvard Rotwitt, John Nelson, Thomas Brisbane, Rembrandt Peale, and Samuel D. Ingham.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Wilson ranks 4,295 out of 8,785. Before him are Clive Brook (1887), William Primrose (1904), Ben Nicholson (1894), George Lillo (1691), Paul McGann (1959), and Arthur Whitten Brown (1886). After him are Adebayo Akinfenwa (1982), George Hillyard (1864), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (1985), Indira Varma (1973), Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800), and Phyllis Covell (1895).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, James Wilson ranks 41. Before him are Maurice Dobb (1900), Colin Clark (1905), James Steuart (1712), John Neville Keynes (1852), Beatrice Webb (1858), and Thomas Hodgskin (1787). After him are Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946), Martin Wolf (1946), G. D. H. Cole (1889), Sajid Javid (1969), Thomas Chalmers (1780), and Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury (1948).

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