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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 186,082 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Lady Hester Stanhope is the 221st most popular explorer, the 1,848th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,845th in 2019) and the 26th most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 221 out of 405Before her are Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Alejandro Malaspina, René Caillié, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Ruy López de Villalobos, and Wulfstan of Hedeby. After her are Julius Popper, Niccolò de' Conti, Nikolaus Federmann, Thorvald Asvaldsson, Pedro Arias Dávila, and Rodrigo de Bastidas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1776, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 20Before her are Pehr Henrik Ling, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Peter Barlow, Jean Lafitte, and Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus. After her are Vasily Tropinin, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Bernardino Drovetti, Karl Friedrich Burdach, Vasily Golovnin, and Friedrich Stromeyer. Among people deceased in 1839, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 21Before her are Lord William Bentinck, Joseph Anton Koch, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Aloysia Weber, Mikhail Speransky, and William Murdoch. After her are Gaspard de Prony, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Dorothea von Schlegel, Denis Davydov, and Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 1,848 out of 7,765Before her are John Webster (1578), George Grenville (1712), Ronald Colman (1891), Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355), Hamnet Shakespeare (1585), and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836). After her are Tony Sheridan (1940), George Meredith (1828), Jojo Moyes (1969), Henry Tandey (1891), Richard Long (1945), and Charles Boycott (1832).

Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 26Before her are Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Samuel Wallis (1728), Matthew Flinders (1774), James Bruce (1730), John Rolfe (1585), and Mark Sykes (1879). After her are Douglas Mawson (1882), John Byron (1723), Samuel Baker (1821), William Parry (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), and Richard Chancellor (1521).