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Thomas Hughes

1822 - 1896

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Thomas Hughes (20 October 1822 – 22 March 1896) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Hughes has received more than 217,348 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Thomas Hughes is the 5,390th most popular writer (down from 5,172nd in 2019), the 4,380th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,584th in 2019) and the 491st most popular British Writer.

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  • 220k

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  • 43.28

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Hughes ranks 5,390 out of 5,755Before him are Avram Davidson, Brigitte Reimann, Dorrit Willumsen, Stephen Spender, Diane Ackerman, and Sarah Waters. After him are Kevin J. Anderson, Edward Abbey, Peter Seeberg, Mihkel Veske, M. Scott Peck, and Liu Xia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Thomas Hughes ranks 73Before him are John Pope, Menyhért Lónyay, Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, István Bittó, Lev Mei, and Charles Frédéric Girard. After him are Edward Everett Hale, Frances Power Cobbe, and George Stoneman. Among people deceased in 1896, Thomas Hughes ranks 74Before him are William Quan Judge, Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Ferdinand von Mueller, George du Maurier, Élie-Abel Carrière, and Vera Yevstafievna Popova. After him are Paul Arène, Francis James Child, and Coventry Patmore.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Hughes ranks 4,380 out of 7,765Before him are Isaac Hempstead Wright (1999), Tracey Ullman (1959), Murray Rose (1939), Dana Rosemary Scallon (1951), Stephen Spender (1909), and Sarah Waters (1966). After him are Prideaux John Selby (1788), Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860), William Beechey (1753), Denis Lawson (1947), Michael Howard (1941), and Florence Pugh (1996).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Hughes ranks 491Before him are Piers Anthony (1934), Stephen Leacock (1869), Kim Newman (1959), Robert Edmond Grant (1793), Stephen Spender (1909), and Sarah Waters (1966). After him are Darren Shan (1972), Joe Orton (1933), Marmaduke Pickthall (1875), Pat Barker (1943), Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320), and Margaret Drabble (1939).