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Joseph Lancaster

1778 - 1838

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Joseph Lancaster (25 November 1778 – 23 October 1838) was an English Quaker and public education innovator. He developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Lancaster has received more than 60,048 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joseph Lancaster is the 9,857th most popular politician (down from 9,522nd in 2019), the 2,097th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,141st in 2019) and the 328th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joseph Lancaster ranks 9,857 out of 15,577Before her are Aristobulus IV, Licinius II, Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, Ernst Wollweber, Nambaryn Enkhbayar, and Sharad Pawar. After her are Princess Louise of Savoy, Ekkathat, Lauri Ingman, Pōmare V, Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena, and Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Joseph Lancaster ranks 27Before her are Beau Brummell, Sophie Blanchard, Honoré V, Prince of Monaco, Carl Ludvig Engel, Augustinos Kapodistrias, and Sigismund von Neukomm. After her are Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Joseph Aspdin, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Joseph Grimaldi, and Carl Ludwig Koch. Among people deceased in 1838, Joseph Lancaster ranks 20Before her are Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Charles Percier, René Caillié, Black Hawk, Heinrich Marx, and José Bonifácio de Andrada. After her are William Clark, Osceola, Ferenc Kölcsey, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Piet Retief, and Maximilian von Montgelas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Lancaster ranks 2,097 out of 7,765Before her are Ian Dury (1942), Barbara West (1911), Kit Harington (1986), James Dyson (1947), Mary Bell (1957), and Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783). After her are John Thaw (1942), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Thomas Beecham (1879), Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (1886), Albert Austin (1881), and Paul Freeman (1943).

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