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Thomas Campbell

1777 - 1844

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Thomas Campbell (27 July 1777 – 15 June 1844) was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland; he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became University College London. In 1799 he wrote Pleasures of Hope, a traditional 18th-century didactic poem in heroic couplets. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Campbell has received more than 51,735 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Campbell is the 5,364th most popular writer, the 4,343rd most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 484th most popular British Writer.

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  • 52k

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  • 43.40

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Campbell ranks 5,364 out of 5,755Before him are William Blum, David Simon, Martin Litchfield West, Mike Godwin, Thomas Brezina, and John Antoine Nau. After him are Piers Anthony, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, Joe Medicine Crow, Amira Hass, Stephen Leacock, and Meg Cabot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Thomas Campbell ranks 39Before him are Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Marie Jules César Savigny, Carlos Anaya, Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, Antoine Risso, and Roger B. Taney. After him are John George Children and Felix Grundy. Among people deceased in 1844, Thomas Campbell ranks 35Before him are Jacob Aall, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Melchor Múzquiz, José Rondeau, Princess Sophia of Gloucester, and Abel P. Upshur. After him are Domingo Nieto and Gaetano Savi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Campbell ranks 4,343 out of 7,765Before him are Martin Litchfield West (1937), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Frank Swift (1913), Vincent Regan (1965), Gertrude Lawrence (1898), and Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536). After him are Victor Johnson (1883), Piers Anthony (1934), Joe Mercer (1914), Kathleen McKane Godfree (1896), John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811), and Stephen Leacock (1869).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Campbell ranks 484Before him are David Garnett (1892), Anthony Powell (1905), R. M. Ballantyne (1825), Abraham Cowley (1618), Nicholas Evans (1950), and Martin Litchfield West (1937). After him are Piers Anthony (1934), Stephen Leacock (1869), Kim Newman (1959), Robert Edmond Grant (1793), Stephen Spender (1909), and Sarah Waters (1966).