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Thomas Telford

1757 - 1834

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Thomas Telford (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Telford has received more than 714,773 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Thomas Telford is the 321st most popular architect (down from 276th in 2019), the 2,583rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,117th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Architect.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Thomas Telford ranks 321 out of 424. Before him are Antonio Rinaldi, Kengo Kuma, Miklós Ybl, Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Marian Spychalski, and Giovanni da Udine. After him are Moisei Ginzburg, Edwin Lutyens, Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, Ralph Erskine, Henning Larsen, and Friedrich Gilly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, Thomas Telford ranks 29. Before him are Vladimir Borovikovsky, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, Maria Anna of Savoy, Duchess of Chablais, Ercole Consalvi, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, and Robert Smith. After him are Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Wojciech Bogusławski, Pál Kitaibel, Countess Friederike von Schlieben, and Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth. Among people deceased in 1834, Thomas Telford ranks 27. Before him are Robert Morrison, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Charles Lamb, and Gamzat-bek. After him are Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Joseph Bové, Pierre Adet, Thomas Say, Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, and Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Telford ranks 2,583 out of 7,765. Before him are Siân Phillips (1933), Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (1987), Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), Paul Johnson (1928), Richard Lydekker (1849), and David Seaman (1963). After him are Alan Baddeley (1934), Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (1640), Olivia Williams (1968), Ellen Terry (1847), Simon MacCorkindale (1952), and John Haigh (1909).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Thomas Telford ranks 18. Before him are Augustus Pugin (1812), Charles Barry (1795), William Kent (1685), John Vanbrugh (1664), John Soane (1753), and David Chipperfield (1953). After him are Edwin Lutyens (1869), Ralph Erskine (1914), Charles Cameron (1746), Frederick Catherwood (1799), Nicholas Grimshaw (1939), and Capability Brown (1716).

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