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Thomas Love Peacock

1785 - 1866

Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Love Peacock is the 5,250th most popular writer, the 3,948th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 443rd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Thomas Love Peacock ranks 5,250 out of 7,302. Before him are Ahmet Haşim, Thomas Ligotti, Kim Myeong-sun, Erico Verissimo, William Cullen Bryant, and Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie. After him are Candace Bushnell, Sara Paretsky, Jiang Rong, Jacques Laurent, Jean Clair, and Petr Bezruč.

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Ahmet Haşim
1887 - 1933
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 5,244
Thomas Ligotti
1953 - Present
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 5,245
Kim Myeong-sun
1896 - 1951
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 5,246
Erico Verissimo
1905 - 1975
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 5,247
William Cullen Bryant
1794 - 1878
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 5,248
Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie
1840 - 1913
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 5,249
Thomas Love Peacock
1785 - 1866
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 5,250
Candace Bushnell
1958 - Present
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 5,251
Sara Paretsky
1947 - Present
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 5,252
Jiang Rong
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 5,253
Jacques Laurent
1919 - 2000
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 5,254
Jean Clair
1940 - Present
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 5,255
Petr Bezruč
1867 - 1958
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 5,256

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Thomas Love Peacock ranks 54. Before him are David Wilkie, William Beaumont, Ján Hollý, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Arvid August Afzelius, and Oliver Hazard Perry. After him are Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Per Georg Scheutz, Manuel Basilio Bustamante, Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, John Oxley, and Gabriel Moore. Among people deceased in 1866, Thomas Love Peacock ranks 46. Before him are Jean-Jacques Willmar, Louis Fraser, Lewis Cass, John Ross, Theodor Kotschy, and José Ignacio Pavón. After him are Henryk Rzewuski, Joseph Weydemeyer, Matvey Gusev, Manuel Felipe de Tovar, William Henry Harvey, and Samuel Ryan Curtis.

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David Wilkie
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HPI: 54.98
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HPI: 54.56
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1785 - 1866
HPI: 53.92
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Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt
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