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John Speed

1551 - 1629

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John Speed (1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian of Cheshire origins. The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London, he rose from his family occupation to accept the task of drawing together and revising the histories, topographies and maps of the Kingdoms of Great Britain as an exposition of the union of their monarchies in the person of King James I and VI. He accomplished this with remarkable success, with the support and assistance of the leading antiquarian scholars of his generation. He drew upon and improved the shire maps of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and others, being the first to incorporate the hundred-boundaries into them, and he was the surveyor and originator of many of the town or city plans inset within them. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Speed has received more than 220,208 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Speed is the 82nd most popular geographer (down from 72nd in 2019), the 5,135th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,026th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Geographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, John Speed ranks 82 out of 86. Before him are Richard Andree, Jehuda Cresques, Yuly Shokalsky, Guillaume Grandidier, Herman Moll, and Anne Buttimer. After him are Thomas Griffith Taylor, Henry Schoolcraft, and Alexander Keith Johnston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1551, John Speed ranks 10. Before him are Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Fausto Veranzio, Ğazı II Giray, Giovanni I Cornaro, William Camden, and Robert Peake the Elder.  Among people deceased in 1629, John Speed ranks 17. Before him are Mehmed III Giray, Sigismondo d'India, Jacob de Gheyn II, Basilius Besler, Giovanni I Cornaro, and Caspar Bartholin the Elder.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Speed ranks 5,135 out of 8,785. Before him are Simon Shelton (1966), Vic Elford (1935), Roger Taylor (1960), Nellie Sengupta (1886), Michael Robinson (1958), and David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (1905). After him are Humphrey Searle (1915), Sophia Di Martino (1983), Richard A. Proctor (1837), Sonya Walger (1974), Philip Massinger (1583), and Frederick E. Morgan (1894).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among geographers born in United Kingdom, John Speed ranks 7. Before him are George Everest (1790), James Lovelock (1919), David Harvey (1935), John Walter Gregory (1864), Doreen Massey (1944), and Aaron Arrowsmith (1750). After him are Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880), and Alexander Keith Johnston (1804).

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