INVENTOR

Rowland Hill

1795 - 1879

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Sir Rowland Hill, KCB, FRS (3 December 1795 – 27 August 1879) was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of Uniform Penny Post and his solution of pre-payment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rowland Hill has received more than 255,159 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Rowland Hill is the 296th most popular inventor (down from 286th in 2019), the 3,004th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,930th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Rowland Hill ranks 296 out of 426. Before him are Ivan Kulibin, Alexander P. de Seversky, Alexandre Alexeieff, Jacob Ellehammer, Henry M. Leland, and Štefan Banič. After him are George Graham, Henry Shrapnel, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, William Justin Kroll, Wilhelm Bauer, and Max Valier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Rowland Hill ranks 47. Before him are Peter Jan Beckx, Thomas Arnold, Adolf Bernhard Marx, Heinrich Rose, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, and Joseph Böhm. After him are Bernt Michael Holmboe, Nikolaos Mantzaros, Benjamin Morrell, Pedro María de Anaya, George Peabody, and José Gregorio Monagas. Among people deceased in 1879, Rowland Hill ranks 46. Before him are Paul Gervais, Aleksandr Baryatinsky, Joseph Hooker, Peter Michal Bohúň, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, and Lyuben Karavelov. After him are William Lloyd Garrison, Johann von Lamont, William Froude, Marguerite Bays, Édouard Spach, and Jakob Stämpfli.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rowland Hill ranks 3,004 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Crichton (1910), Michael Winner (1935), Jack Clayton (1921), Richard Dadd (1817), Derek Bell (1941), and William Langland (1332). After him are Timothy Laurence (1955), Andy Bell (1964), Richard Hooker (1554), John Winthrop (1588), Henry Raeburn (1756), and George Graham (1673).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Rowland Hill ranks 49. Before him are Harry Brearley (1871), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Samuel Morland (1625), John Barnard (1946), Joseph Aspdin (1778), and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850). After him are George Graham (1673), Henry Shrapnel (1761), Alexander Bain (1810), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), John Wilkinson (1728), and David Dunbar Buick (1854).

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