SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Octavia Hill

1838 - 1912

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Octavia Hill (3 December 1838 – 13 August 1912) was an English social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born into a family of radical thinkers and reformers with a strong commitment to alleviating poverty, she herself grew up in straitened circumstances owing to the financial failure of her father's businesses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Octavia Hill has received more than 287,731 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Octavia Hill is the 551st most popular social activist (down from 436th in 2019), the 4,247th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,463rd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Octavia Hills by language

Over the past year Octavia Hill has had the most page views in the with 36,068 views, followed by Spanish (8,040), and Czech (1,282). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latin (64.56%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (58.04%), and Hebrew (33.71%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Octavia Hill ranks 551 out of 840. Before her are Meena Keshwar Kamal, Oswaldo Payá, Henry Spira, Stephen Mallory, Roger Stone, and Akira Amano. After her are Veerappan, Lida Heymann, Yelizaveta Chaikina, Eoin O'Duffy, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, and Bill Haywood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Octavia Hill ranks 98. Before her are Oswald Schmiedeberg, Alexander Veselovsky, General Tom Thumb, Marc Delafontaine, Oskar Gripenberg, and John Morley. After her are John Wanamaker, Margaret E. Knight, Henry Hobson Richardson, Joseph F. Smith, Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal, and Walter Buller. Among people deceased in 1912, Octavia Hill ranks 121. Before her are Henri Bouckaert, Anton Aškerc, Richard Andree, Juan Gualberto González, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, and Luis Cordero Crespo. After her are Harriet Quimby, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Edgar Evans, Henry Sweet, Sophia Jex-Blake, and Emil Stang.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Octavia Hill ranks 4,247 out of 8,785. Before her are G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), John Morley (1838), Elisabeth Sladen (1946), Mick Avory (1944), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), and Richard Overy (1947). After her are Dexter Fletcher (1966), Owain Gwynedd (1100), Roger Ascham (1515), Howard Marks (1945), Sadie Frost (1965), and Paula Yates (1959).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Octavia Hill ranks 33. Before her are Donald Watson (1910), Mary Toft (1703), Jack Sheppard (1702), Hereward the Wake (1035), Grey Owl (1888), and Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930). After her are Emily Hobhouse (1860), Annie Kenney (1879), Flora Drummond (1878), Emily Davies (1830), Thomas Clarkson (1760), and Ingrid Newkirk (1949).

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