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John Graves Simcoe

1752 - 1806

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Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York, which is now known as Toronto, and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, and also in the abolition of slavery in Upper Canada. His long-term goal was the development of Upper Canada (Ontario) as a model community built on aristocratic and conservative principles, designed to demonstrate the superiority of those principles to the republicanism of the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Graves Simcoe has received more than 2,006,270 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. John Graves Simcoe is the 17,020th most popular politician, the 5,371st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 605th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Graves Simcoe ranks 17,020 out of 19,576. Before him are Yahya Ould Hademine, Seiji Maehara, Hérard Abraham, Vladimir Rushailo, Zeid Raad Al Hussein, and Don Young. After him are Yevgeny Roizman, Aleksy Antkiewicz, Dietmar Woidke, Saufatu Sopoanga, Henry Hyndman, and David Adeang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, John Graves Simcoe ranks 37. Before him are Antonio Scarpa, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Barnaba Oriani, Palisot de Beauvois, Gouverneur Morris, and George Rogers Clark. After him is Philip Freneau. Among people deceased in 1806, John Graves Simcoe ranks 51. Before him are Heinrich Christian Boie, Benjamin Banneker, Rana Bahadur Shah, Robert Morris, William Paterson, and Charlotte Smith. After him are George Wythe, John Breckinridge, and Elizabeth Carter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Graves Simcoe ranks 5,371 out of 8,785. Before him are Naomi Mitchison (1897), Barriemore Barlow (1949), Churchill Babington (1821), Walter Crickmer (1899), Craig David (1981), and Edgar Syers (1863). After him are Cecil Parker (1897), Emilia Fox (1974), Henry Hyndman (1842), Kevin Whately (1951), Mary Forbes (1883), and Phyllida Lloyd (1957).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, John Graves Simcoe ranks 605. Before him are Donald Dewar (1937), Jo Cox (1974), Harriet Harman (1950), John Bercow (1963), Harry Pollitt (1890), and Mark Drakeford (1954). After him are Henry Hyndman (1842), Nick Griffin (1959), Edwin Montagu (1879), Rhodri Morgan (1939), Tebbs Lloyd Johnson (1900), and Alistair Darling (1953).

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