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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 513,647 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. James Wilson is the 312th most popular economist (down from 279th in 2019), the 3,918th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,973rd in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Economist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, James Wilson ranks 312 out of 315. Before him are Ilham Tohti, Fischer Black, Rose Friedman, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Abdi Farah Shirdon, and Henryk Grossman. After him are W. Michael Blumenthal, Abel Aganbegyan, Armen Alchian, Ester Boserup, Pedro Solbes, and John Lipsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, James Wilson ranks 66. Before him are Tomás Villalba, José Ballivián, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, John O. Westwood, William Harrison Ainsworth, and Johann Friedrich Klotzsch. After him are Samuel Palmer, Michael Sars, Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz, Samuel Ryan Curtis, and Frederick Denison Maurice. Among people deceased in 1860, James Wilson ranks 53. Before him are John Neumann, Ludwig Bechstein, Juan Rafael Mora Porras, Nicolaas Pieneman, Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, and Johann Friedrich Klotzsch. After him are André Marie Constant Duméril, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, John Nelson, Thomas Brisbane, and Samuel D. Ingham.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Wilson ranks 3,918 out of 7,765. Before him are James Robertson Justice (1907), Stuart McCall (1964), Frank Dillane (1991), Simon Fuller (1960), Gary McKinnon (1966), and Simon Gallup (1960). After him are Charles Robert Cockerell (1788), Karen Gillan (1987), Jimmy Hogan (1882), Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768), Brandon Carter (1942), and George Grote (1794).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, James Wilson ranks 40. Before him are Tony Atkinson (1944), Antony C. Sutton (1925), Maurice Dobb (1900), John Neville Keynes (1852), Beatrice Webb (1858), and James Steuart (1712). After him are Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946), Thomas Hodgskin (1787), Sajid Javid (1969), and Thomas Chalmers (1780).

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