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Leigh Hunt

1784 - 1859

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James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 1784 – 28 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. Hunt co-founded The Examiner, a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre of the Hampstead-based group that included William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, known as the "Hunt circle". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leigh Hunt has received more than 489,890 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Leigh Hunt is the 5,295th most popular writer (down from 4,876th in 2019), the 4,263rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,996th in 2019) and the 475th most popular British Writer.

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  • 490k

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  • 43.73

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.94

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  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leigh Hunt ranks 5,295 out of 5,755Before him are Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Philippa Pearce, Manuel Rivas, Árpád Tóth, Olavi Paavolainen, and Stefan Andres. After him are David Mitchell, Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Kristina Lugn, Aelianus Tacticus, and José Hierro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Leigh Hunt ranks 46Before him are Christopher Hansteen, Joseph Bové, Charles Dupin, José Tadeo Monagas, Juan Mora Fernández, and José María Pérez de Urdininea. After him are George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland and William Yarrell. Among people deceased in 1859, Leigh Hunt ranks 53Before him are Heinrich Zollinger, Joseph Diez Gergonne, José Miguel de Velasco Franco, Thomas Horsfield, Mirabeau B. Lamar, and Thomas Nuttall. After him are Juan Bautista Ceballos, Charles Hamilton Smith, Eliza Acton, Richard Rush, David Cox, and George M. Bibb.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leigh Hunt ranks 4,263 out of 7,765Before him are Ken Wharton (1916), Alistair Petrie (1970), Mike Ratledge (1943), Simon Blackburn (1944), Charles Bradlaugh (1833), and John Prescott (1938). After him are Michael Kitchen (1948), Robin Dunbar (1947), Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (1868), John Edwards (1953), Alfie Allen (1986), and Steve Clark (1960).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Leigh Hunt ranks 475Before him are John Marston (1576), John of Worcester (1100), Thomas Traherne (1636), George Borrow (1803), James Herbert (1943), and Philippa Pearce (1920). After him are David Mitchell (1969), Isaac D'Israeli (1766), David Garnett (1892), Anthony Powell (1905), R. M. Ballantyne (1825), and Abraham Cowley (1618).