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Thomas Gray

1716 - 1771

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Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. Gray was a self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being very popular. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Gray has received more than 923,042 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Thomas Gray is the 2,755th most popular writer (down from 2,130th in 2019), the 2,059th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,650th in 2019) and the 225th most popular British Writer.

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  • 920k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Gray ranks 2,755 out of 7,302. Before him are Franz Overbeck, Sogyal Rinpoche, Zeb-un-Nissa, Michele Ruggieri, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, and Israel Zolli. After him are Harold Robbins, Carl Bernstein, Meir Shalev, Antal Szerb, Thomas Kyd, and Petter Dass.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Thomas Gray ranks 11. Before him are Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Joseph-Marie Vien, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Antonio de Ulloa, Yuan Mei, and Louise Diane d'Orléans. After him are Luis Egidio Meléndez, Pehr Kalm, Eugenios Voulgaris, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, and Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz. Among people deceased in 1771, Thomas Gray ranks 14. Before him are Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Alexei Razumovsky, John Bevis, Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Tobias Smollett, and František Brixi. After him are Johann Gottlieb Graun, Dmitry Laptev, William Fermor, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal, and Konrad Ernst Ackermann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Gray ranks 2,059 out of 8,785. Before him are William Foulke (1874), John Profumo (1915), William Paley (1743), Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883), Tim Hunt (1943), and Rick Parfitt (1948). After him are Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Arthur Sullivan (1842), Ronald Speirs (1920), Thomas Kyd (1558), Samuel Smiles (1812), and Joseph Butler (1692).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Gray ranks 225. Before him are Edith Pargeter (1913), Herbert Read (1893), William Smith (1813), Peter James (1948), Marjorie Boulton (1924), and Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1310). After him are Thomas Kyd (1558), Samuel Smiles (1812), Robert Holdstock (1948), Josephine Tey (1896), Marion Chesney (1936), and James Herriot (1916).

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