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Lawrence Stone

1919 - 1999

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Lawrence Stone (4 December 1919 – 16 June 1999) was an English historian of early modern Britain, after a start to his career as an art historian of English medieval art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Stone has received more than 101,237 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Lawrence Stone is the 512th most popular historian (down from 425th in 2019), the 4,844th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,600th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Lawrence Stone ranks 512 out of 561. Before him are Robert Kagan, Walter Rodney, Carroll Quigley, A. H. M. Jones, Mary Beard, and Vasily Struve. After him are Mark Mazower, Drew Gilpin Faust, Albrecht Weber, Ivan Charota, R. H. Tawney, and Romila Thapar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Lawrence Stone ranks 308. Before him are Slim Pickens, Louise Bennett-Coverley, Naim Talu, Erik Elmsäter, Tim Holt, and Mary Midgley. After him are Ernie Kovacs, André Guelfi, John Houbolt, Clifford Truesdell, Betty Garrett, and Cecil Green. Among people deceased in 1999, Lawrence Stone ranks 271. Before him are Augustus Pablo, Rolf Landauer, Willy Bandholz, João Carlos de Oliveira, Yakov Rylsky, and Marie Kraja. After him are Brian Shawe-Taylor, Bailey Olter, Irving Rapper, Roderick Chisholm, Jill Dando, and Basil Hume.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lawrence Stone ranks 4,844 out of 8,785. Before him are Alex Garland (1970), Rupert Holmes (1947), Lucy Hawking (1969), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (1983), Joe Spence (1898), and Basil Dearden (1911). After him are Anna Friel (1976), Jonathan Penrose (1933), Peter Sallis (1921), Edward Lhuyd (1660), Ray Kennedy (1951), and Mark Mazower (1958).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Lawrence Stone ranks 64. Before him are H. J. R. Murray (1868), George Grote (1794), Simon Schama (1945), Robert Service (1947), A. H. M. Jones (1904), and Mary Beard (1955). After him are Mark Mazower (1958), David Abulafia (1949), Hugh N. Kennedy (1947), Edward Augustus Freeman (1823), Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938), and Jan Morris (1926).

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