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Lady Hester Stanhope

1776 - 1839

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Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was a British adventurer, writer, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age. Her excavation of Ascalon in 1815 is considered the first to use modern archaeological principles, and her use of a medieval Italian document is described as "one of the earliest uses of textual sources by field archaeologists". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lady Hester Stanhope has received more than 221,064 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Lady Hester Stanhope is the 245th most popular explorer (down from 220th in 2019), the 2,009th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,843rd in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 220k

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  • 60.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 245 out of 498. Before her are Pehr Osbeck, Eduard von Toll, Grigory Potanin, Nikolaus Federmann, Cristoforo Buondelmonti, and Tristão Vaz Teixeira. After her are Rodrigo de Jerez, Edward Bransfield, Juan de Garay, Pero Escobar, Ingvar the Far-Travelled, and Thorvald Eiriksson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1776, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 22. Before her are Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Simon Fraser, Peter Barlow, Vasily Tropinin, Jean Lafitte, and Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh. After her are Vasily Golovnin, Friedrich Stromeyer, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Karl Friedrich Burdach, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, and Joseph Görres. Among people deceased in 1839, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 24. Before her are Adolphe Nourrit, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Joseph Anton Koch, Dorothea von Schlegel, Gaspard de Prony, and Aloysia Weber. After her are Denis Davydov, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Maurice de Guérin, and Joseph Franz von Jacquin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 2,009 out of 8,785. Before her are Unity Mitford (1914), Chas Chandler (1938), Edward Cave (1691), John Wood (1930), Reg Park (1928), and Robert Watson-Watt (1892). After her are Æthelbald of Mercia (700), Ed Sheeran (1991), Andy Gibb (1958), Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847), John Loudon McAdam (1756), and Graham Nash (1942).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 28. Before her are John Rolfe (1585), William Parry (1790), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Matthew Flinders (1774), Samuel Wallis (1728), and John Ross (1777). After her are William Smith (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Humphrey Gilbert (1539), Richard Chancellor (1521), Douglas Mawson (1882), and Edward Wilson (1872).

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