POLITICIAN

Samuel Plimsoll

1824 - 1898

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Samuel Plimsoll (10 February 1824 – 3 June 1898) was a British politician and social reformer, now best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line (a line on a ship's hull indicating the maximum safe draught, and therefore the minimum freeboard for the vessel in various operating conditions). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Plimsoll has received more than 182,009 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Plimsoll is the 16,619th most popular politician (down from 15,241st in 2019), the 5,021st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,644th in 2019) and the 581st most popular British Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Samuel Plimsoll ranks 16,619 out of 19,576. Before him are George Ariyoshi, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Jo Jorgensen, Eric Holder, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Marjatta Kajosmaa. After him are Katarina Barley, Safdar Jang, Liberato Marcial Rojas, Robert J. Bentley, John Haglelgam, and Yaël Braun-Pivet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Samuel Plimsoll ranks 79. Before him are Aniceto Arce, Franz Sigel, Lőrinc Schlauch, Christen Dalsgaard, Edmund Kirby Smith, and Hieronymous Theodor Richter. After him are Calvert Vaux, Eastman Johnson, and William Allingham. Among people deceased in 1898, Samuel Plimsoll ranks 81. Before him are Johan Lange, Yelena Polenova, William Rosecrans, Thomas F. Bayard, Luiza Pesjak, and Georg Bühler. After him are George Grey, Benjamin Mountfort, Frances Willard, and Blanche Bruce.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Plimsoll ranks 5,021 out of 8,785. Before him are Eva Crane (1912), George Grove (1820), Queenie Newall (1854), Anne Dudley (1956), Wendy Barrie (1912), and Peter Lord (1953). After him are Peter Cook (1937), Gertrude Lawrence (1898), Alan Hansen (1955), Jimmy Murray (1933), Valerie Hobson (1917), and Harry Ryan (1893).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Samuel Plimsoll ranks 581. Before him are Mackenzie Bowell (1823), James Oglethorpe (1696), Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536), Herbert Morrison (1888), James Cleverly (1969), and George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784). After him are Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762), Albert Oldman (1883), John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792), James McHenry (1753), Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831), and Erskine Childers (1870).

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