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Thomas Percy

1729 - 1811

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Thomas Percy (13 April 1729 – 30 September 1811) was Bishop of Dromore, County Down, Ireland. Before being made bishop, he was chaplain to George III of the United Kingdom. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Percy has received more than 30,303 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Percy is the 6,406th most popular writer (down from 5,780th in 2019), the 5,594th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,117th in 2019) and the 639th most popular British Writer.

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  • 30k

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  • 41.27

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.25

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  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs ..
Correspondence
Biography, Bishops, Church of Ireland
Reliques of ancient English poetry
English Ballads, English Folk songs, English Romances
The hermit of Warkworth
Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript
Antología de la literatura fantástica
Fantasy literature, Fantastic literature, Anachronisms
Contains: Sennin / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -- A woman alone with her soul / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Ben-Tobith / Leonid Andreyev -- Phantom basket / John Aubrey -- Drowned giant / J.G. Ballard -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- Tail of the sphinx / Ambrose Bierce -- Squid in its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Guilty eyes / Ah'med Ech Chiruani -- Anything you want! ... / Léon Bloy -- [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W) / Jorge Luis Borges -- Odin / Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros -- Golden kite, the silver wind / Ray Bradbury -- Man who collected the first of September, 1973 / Tor Åge Bringsvaerd -- Careless rabbi / Martin Buber -- Tale of the poet / Sir Richard Burton -- Fate is a fool / Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta -- An actual authentic ghost / Thomas Carlyle -- Red king's dream / Lewis Carroll -- Tree of pride / G.K. Chesterton -- Tower of Babel / G.K. Chesterton -- Man who knew too much / Cassell -- Dream of the Butterfly / Chuang Tzu -- Llook of death / Jean Cocteau -- House taken over / Julio Cortázar -- Being dust / Santiago Dabove -- A parable of gluttony / Alexandra David-Neel -- Persecution of the master / Alexandra David-Neel -- Idle city / Lord Dunsany -- Tantalia / Macedonio Fernández -- Eternal Life / J.G. Frazer -- A secure home / Elena Garro -- Man who did not believe in miracles / Herbert A. Giles -- Earth's holocaust / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ending for a ghost story / I.A. Ireland -- Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- What Is a ghost? / James Joyce -- May Goulding / James Joyce -- Wizard passed over / Don Juan Manuel -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk / Franz Kafka -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- Return of imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Horses of Abdera / Leopoldo Lugones -- Ceremony / Arthur Machen -- Riddle / Walter de la Mare -- Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant -- Shadow of the players / Edwin Morgan -- Cat / H.A. Murena -- Story of the foxes / Niu Chiao.

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Percy ranks 6,406 out of 7,302Before him are Leslie Feinberg, Jennifer Egan, James Patrick Kelly, Phyllis A. Whitney, Janet Evanovich, and Tron Øgrim. After him are Joe Hill, Māra Zālīte, Ayi Kwei Armah, James Branch Cabell, Michael McClure, and Andrew Sarris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Thomas Percy ranks 33Before him are Ivan Argunov, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe, Clara Reeve, Fyodor Volkov, and Josiah Bartlett.  Among people deceased in 1811, Thomas Percy ranks 27Before him are Johann Beckmann, Juan Aldama, Ivan Osterman, György Bessenyei, Benjamin Vulliamy, and Samuel Chase. After him are Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and Thomas Fitzsimons.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Percy ranks 5,594 out of 8,785Before him are Don Howe (1935), Hans Matheson (1975), Les Leston (1920), Lucy Gordon (1980), David Jack (1898), and Fred Martin (1929). After him are David Kelly (1944), Elizabeth Allan (1910), Sandrine Holt (1972), Bryan Steel (1969), Finola Hughes (1959), and Marsha Thomason (1976).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Percy ranks 639Before him are Thomas Lodge (1558), H. R. F. Keating (1926), Alfred Austin (1835), George Peele (1556), Barry Unsworth (1930), and Mary Berry (1935). After him are Frances Wright (1795), Thomas Hood (1799), Anna Löwenstein (1951), Samuel Daniel (1562), Kate Mosse (1961), and James Bowen (1979).