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Richard Pococke

1704 - 1765

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Richard Pococke (19 November 1704 – 25 September 1765) was an English-born churchman, inveterate traveller and travel writer. He was the Bishop of Ossory (1756–65) and Meath (1765), both dioceses of the Church of Ireland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Pococke has received more than 64,277 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Richard Pococke is the 4,260th most popular writer (up from 4,720th in 2019), the 3,043rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,585th in 2019) and the 342nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.28

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  • 2.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Travels Through England of Dr. Richard Pococke; Volume I
2022
Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760
Description and travel
1887
Pococke's Tour in Ireland in 1752
2017
The Travels Through England of Dr. Richard Pococke, Successively Bishop of Meath and of Ossory, During 1750, 1751, and Later Years; Volume 44
2018
The travels through England of Dr. Richard Pococke
Description and travel
1965
The Travels Through England of Dr. Richard Pococke, Successively Bishop of Meath and of Ossory, During 1750, 1751, and Later Years
2018

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Pococke ranks 4,260 out of 7,302. Before him are Titsian Tabidze, Penelope Delta, James Blish, Yu Dafu, Richard Beer-Hofmann, and Guzal Sitdikova. After him are Joachim Ringelnatz, Rube Goldberg, August Ahlqvist, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Krishan Chander, and Adalet Ağaoğlu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1704, Richard Pococke ranks 17. Before him are Johann Andreas Segner, Louis de Jaucourt, Carlos Seixas, Charles Pinot Duclos, Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Andrija Kačić Miošić. After him are John Byng, Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Ivan Betskoy. Among people deceased in 1765, Richard Pococke ranks 19. Before him are Mir Jafar, Edward Young, Johan Agrell, Johann Melchior Molter, Carl Alexander Clerck, and Prokop Diviš. After him are William Stukeley, and Prince Frederick of Great Britain.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Pococke ranks 3,043 out of 8,785. Before him are Patrick Doyle (1953), Jean Shrimpton (1942), Ruth Belville (1854), Edward Hardwicke (1932), Genesis P-Orridge (1950), and Anthony Hope (1863). After him are Andrew Loog Oldham (1944), Samuel Baker (1821), Thomas Digges (1546), Ted Drake (1912), Dorothy Garrod (1892), and Frank Watson Dyson (1868).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Richard Pococke ranks 342. Before him are William Langland (1332), John Winthrop (1588), Walter Map (1140), David Almond (1951), Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823), and Anthony Hope (1863). After him are Richard Hakluyt (1552), Pamela Colman Smith (1878), John Stott (1921), Reynold A. Nicholson (1868), Winston Graham (1908), and Andrew Marvell (1621).

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