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Thomas Griffith Taylor

1880 - 1963

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Thomas Griffith "Grif" Taylor (1 December 1880 – 5 November 1963) was an English-born geographer, anthropologist and world explorer. He was a survivor of Captain Robert Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica (1910–1913). Taylor was a senior academic geographer at universities in Sydney, Chicago, and Toronto. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Griffith Taylor has received more than 115,416 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Thomas Griffith Taylor is the 73rd most popular geographer (down from 66th in 2019), the 5,472nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,027th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Geographer.

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  • 16

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  • 2.28

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  • 3.08

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Thomas Griffith Taylor ranks 73 out of 67Before him are Carl O. Sauer, Yuly Shokalsky, Herman Moll, Johannes Gabriel Granö, Arnold Henry Guyot, and John Speed. After him are Henry Schoolcraft.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Thomas Griffith Taylor ranks 208Before him are Tom Taylor, Einar Arnórsson, Joseph Stadler, Giles Gilbert Scott, Thomas Thorstensen, and Ernest Townsend. After him are Nora Bayes, Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, Leo Carrillo, and George Poage. Among people deceased in 1963, Thomas Griffith Taylor ranks 195Before him are Otto Fickeisen, Björn Þórðarson, Ivan Brown, Calvin Bricker, Oliver La Farge, and Monty Woolley. After him are Hooley Smith and Otto Wahle.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Griffith Taylor ranks 5,472 out of 7,765Before him are Sarah Harding (1981), Robert Green (1980), Lucy Davis (1973), Jane Leeves (1961), Joseph Mawle (1974), and John Leckie (1949). After him are Alfred Bowerman (1873), Jimmy Mullen (1923), Geoffrey Palmer (1927), Olivia Cooke (1993), Lee Ryan (1983), and Glen Johnson (1984).

Among GEOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among geographers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Griffith Taylor ranks 7Before him are George Everest (1790), David Harvey (1935), James Lovelock (1919), Doreen Massey (1944), John Walter Gregory (1864), and John Speed (1551).