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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 172,611 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Samuel Plimsoll is the 15,297th most popular politician (down from 13,932nd in 2019), the 4,654th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,456th in 2019) and the 552nd most popular British Politician.

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  • 17

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Samuel Plimsoll ranks 15,297 out of 15,577. Before him are Solvita Āboltiņa, John Bell, Haim Ramon, Geraint, Mohamed Said Fofana, and Nikos Dendias. After him are Dan White, Asaf Ali, Mridula Sinha, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Louis Meznarie, and Cheick Modibo Diarra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Samuel Plimsoll ranks 72. Before him are Theodor von Heuglin, Victoire Léodile Béra, Francesco Brioschi, Antonio Aguilar y Correa, Marquis of Vega de Armijo, Calvert Vaux, and Edmund Kirby Smith. After him is Eastman Johnson. Among people deceased in 1898, Samuel Plimsoll ranks 78. Before him are Osbert Salvin, Luiza Pesjak, William Rosecrans, Wilford Woodruff, Benjamin Mountfort, and Georg Bühler. After him are Frances Willard, Thomas F. Bayard, George Grey, and Blanche Bruce.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Plimsoll ranks 4,654 out of 7,765. Before him are Brian Moore (1921), Richard Barbieri (1957), Adam Ant (1954), Vivien Merchant (1929), Laurie Cunningham (1956), and Paddy Considine (1973). After him are Rupert Holmes (1947), Adam Lallana (1988), Michael Hordern (1911), Henry Taylor (1932), Stuart Baird (1947), and Neil Kinnock (1942).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Samuel Plimsoll ranks 552. Before him are Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785), Douglas Hurd (1930), Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421), Reginald McKenna (1863), Princess Claire of Belgium (1974), and Abraham Beame (1906). After him are Neil Kinnock (1942), Lindsay Hoyle (1957), Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1845), Amina J. Mohammed (1961), George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823), and John Smith (1938).

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