PHILOSOPHER

Richard Price

1723 - 1791

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Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a Welsh moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer and pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the French and American Revolutions. He was well-connected and fostered communication between many people, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, Mirabeau and the Marquis de Condorcet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Price has received more than 378,518 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Richard Price is the 1,185th most popular philosopher (down from 1,091st in 2019), the 4,131st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,812th in 2019) and the 81st most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Richard Price ranks 1,185 out of 1,267. Before him are Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Leila Ahmed, Hermann Lietz, Iris Marion Young, William Chittick, and Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde. After him are Judith Jarvis Thomson, David Malet Armstrong, John Major, Papirius Fabianus, Quentin Meillassoux, and Hendrik Adamson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Richard Price ranks 29. Before him are William Chambers, Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, William Livingston, John Byron, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, and Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes. After him are Peter Ascanius, and Crispus Attucks. Among people deceased in 1791, Richard Price ranks 17. Before him are João de Loureiro, Besiki, Francesca Lebrun, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Johan Andreas Murray, and Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After him are Catharine Macaulay, Anna Louisa Karsch, Francis Hopkinson, and Benjamin Harrison V.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Price ranks 4,131 out of 8,785. Before him are Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764), Danny Welbeck (1990), Carol Thatcher (1953), John Clare (1793), Clarence Kingsbury (1882), and Dan Houser (1974). After him are Anne McLaren (1927), Daniel Oliver (1830), Richard Hoggart (1918), Alan Napier (1903), Herbert Lawford (1851), and Eanflæd (626).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Richard Price ranks 81. Before him are Mark Fisher (1968), John Peckham (1227), Anthony Collins (1676), Bernard Bosanquet (1848), Eric A. Havelock (1903), and Michael Ruse (1940). After him are John Major (1467), Ernest Belfort Bax (1854), Susan Haack (1945), Dugald Stewart (1753), Simon Blackburn (1944), and J. J. C. Smart (1920).

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