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Thomas Arnold

1795 - 1842

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Thomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was an English educator and historian. He was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement. As headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, he introduced several reforms that were widely copied by other noted public schools. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Arnold has received more than 324,658 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Thomas Arnold is the 997th most popular philosopher (down from 834th in 2019), the 2,615th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,023rd in 2019) and the 63rd most popular British Philosopher.

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  • 51.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Thomas Arnold ranks 997 out of 1,267. Before him are Abdolkarim Soroush, Harry Frankfurt, Merab Mamardashvili, Sphaerus, Jean Rostand, and Nana Asmaʼu. After him are Ram Dass, Seyla Benhabib, Jacob Taubes, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Isidore of Alexandria, and Arulenus Rusticus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Thomas Arnold ranks 42. Before him are Kondraty Ryleyev, Carl Anton von Meyer, Karl Ludwig Sand, Dingane kaSenzangakhona, Arthur Morin, and Peter Jan Beckx. After him are Adolf Bernhard Marx, Heinrich Rose, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Joseph Böhm, Rowland Hill, and Bernt Michael Holmboe. Among people deceased in 1842, Thomas Arnold ranks 28. Before him are Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Pierre Baillot, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Robert Smith, and Nodira. After him are Shah Shujah Durrani, Wilhelm Gesenius, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Leona Vicario, Aleksey Koltsov, and Henry Shrapnel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Arnold ranks 2,615 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847), Henry Pottinger (1789), Ashley Cole (1980), George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946), Austin Osman Spare (1886), and Dominic West (1969). After him are C. P. Snow (1905), Bill Ivy (1942), Quentin Blake (1932), Kit Harington (1986), Peggy Ashcroft (1907), and Billy Meredith (1874).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Arnold ranks 63. Before him are John Scott Haldane (1860), Richard Swinburne (1934), Martin Lings (1909), Samuel Clarke (1675), Anna Kingsford (1846), and J. M. E. McTaggart (1866). After him are Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678), John Hick (1922), R. M. Hare (1919), Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659), Michael Oakeshott (1901), and Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788).

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