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Thomas Chatterton

1752 - 1770

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Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Although fatherless and raised in poverty, Chatterton was an exceptionally studious child, publishing mature work by the age of 11. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Chatterton has received more than 508,356 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Thomas Chatterton is the 1,095th most popular writer (up from 1,337th in 2019), the 881st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,044th in 2019) and the 107th most popular British Writer.

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  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Chatterton ranks 1,095 out of 5,755. Before him are Henri Michaux, Allan Pinkerton, Mimnermus, Jean Giraudoux, Jan Neruda, and Andrei Bely. After him are Pierre Larousse, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Elizabeth Gaskell, Lü Dongbin, Ethel Voynich, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Thomas Chatterton ranks 7. Before him are Jeongjo of Joseon, Maria Carolina of Austria, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Muzio Clementi, Adrien-Marie Legendre, and Karl Mack von Leiberich. After him are Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Jacques Roux, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Nguyễn Huệ, and Sébastien Érard. Among people deceased in 1770, Thomas Chatterton ranks 5. Before him are François Boucher, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Giuseppe Tartini, and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria. After him are Suzuki Harunobu, Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Jean-Antoine Nollet, George Whitefield, James Stirling, and George Grenville.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Chatterton ranks 881 out of 7,765. Before him are Tony Richardson (1928), William Holman Hunt (1827), Edward Whymper (1840), Peter Cushing (1913), Rob Halford (1951), and Joseph Swan (1828). After him are Frederic Leighton (1830), Mike Newell (1942), Archer Martin (1910), James Paul Moody (1887), James Lovelock (1919), and Elizabeth Gaskell (1810).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Chatterton ranks 107. Before him are Edmund Spenser (1552), Robert Graves (1895), W. H. Auden (1907), Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), Patrick White (1912), and Allan Pinkerton (1819). After him are Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Lobsang Rampa (1910), Dylan Thomas (1914), Arthur Hailey (1920), Thomas De Quincey (1785), and John Berger (1926).

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