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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 125,301 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Thomas Griffith Taylor is the 83rd most popular geographer (down from 73rd in 2019), the 5,415th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,459th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Geographer.

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  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Thomas Griffith Taylor ranks 83 out of 86. Before him are Jehuda Cresques, Yuly Shokalsky, Guillaume Grandidier, Herman Moll, Anne Buttimer, and John Speed. After him are Henry Schoolcraft, and Alexander Keith Johnston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Thomas Griffith Taylor ranks 221. Before him are Thomas Thorstensen, R. H. Tawney, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, Emma P. Carr, Joseph Stadler, and Alexander Hall. After him are Einar Arnórsson, Elizabeth Kenny, Damon Runyon, Ernest Townsend, Charles King, and Wally Kinnear. Among people deceased in 1963, Thomas Griffith Taylor ranks 213. Before him are Sigvard Sivertsen, Bohumil Modrý, Tashi Namgyal, Theodore Roethke, Donald Piper, and Luis Pérez. After him are Calvin Bricker, Björn Þórðarson, Wanda Hawley, Monty Woolley, Jason Robards Sr., and Estes Kefauver.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Griffith Taylor ranks 5,415 out of 8,785. Before him are Eve Best (1971), Lysette Anthony (1963), Anna Chancellor (1965), Alan Geldard (1927), Samuel Hearne (1745), and Roland Young (1887). After him are Muriel Pavlow (1921), Andrea Arnold (1961), Redvers Buller (1839), Alistair Darling (1953), Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814), and Harry Golombek (1911).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among geographers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Griffith Taylor ranks 8. Before him are James Lovelock (1919), David Harvey (1935), John Walter Gregory (1864), Doreen Massey (1944), Aaron Arrowsmith (1750), and John Speed (1551). After him are Alexander Keith Johnston (1804).

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