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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 232,572 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Rowland Hill is the 286th most popular inventor (down from 279th in 2019), the 2,938th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,749th in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 23

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  • 3.11

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  • 3.58

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Rowland Hill ranks 286 out of 354Before him are Thomas Wedgwood, Ivan Kulibin, André Blondel, Jack Northrop, Rostislav Alexeyev, and Wilson Greatbatch. After him are Peter Carl Goldmark, Ralph Hartley, Tabitha Babbitt, John Barnard, Walter Bruch, and Bernard Lown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Rowland Hill ranks 45Before him are James Braid, Kondraty Ryleyev, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Karl Ludwig Sand, Peter Jan Beckx, and Adolf Bernhard Marx. After him are Benjamin Morrell, Nikolaos Mantzaros, George Peabody, Joseph Böhm, Bernt Michael Holmboe, and Heinrich Rose. Among people deceased in 1879, Rowland Hill ranks 45Before him are Jeanne Jugan, Johann von Lamont, Jakob Dubs, Aleksandr Baryatinsky, William Froude, and Lyuben Karavelov. After him are Immanuel Hermann Fichte, William Lloyd Garrison, Edward Blore, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, Peter Arnold Heise, and John Bell Hood.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rowland Hill ranks 2,938 out of 7,765Before him are Constance Markievicz (1868), Dave Legeno (1963), Christopher Cradock (1862), Ian Wright (1963), John Playfair (1748), and Andy Goldsworthy (1956). After him are Clare Torry (1947), Princess Louisa of Great Britain (1749), Jimmy Gardner (1924), Edmund Purdom (1926), Donald Moffat (1930), and Jeremy Northam (1961).

Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Rowland Hill ranks 46Before him are Samuel Morland (1625), James Nasmyth (1808), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Joseph Aspdin (1778), John Wilkinson (1728), and Thomas Wedgwood (1771). After him are John Barnard (1946), Joseph Bramah (1748), David Dunbar Buick (1854), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), William Friese-Greene (1855), and Isaac Pitman (1813).