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Thomas Tew

1649 - 1695

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Thomas Tew (died September 1695), also known as the Rhode Island Pirate, was a 17th-century English privateer-turned-pirate. He embarked on two major pirate voyages and met a bloody death on the second, and he pioneered the route which became known as the Pirate Round. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Tew has received more than 709,533 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Thomas Tew is the 22nd most popular pirate, the 1,342nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,204th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Pirate.

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  • 63.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PIRATES

Among pirates, Thomas Tew ranks 22 out of 29. Before him are Ching Shih, Edward England, Jan Janszoon, Stede Bonnet, Samuel Bellamy, and Piet Pieterszoon Hein. After him are Jean Lafitte, Edward Low, Awilda, Roche Braziliano, Cheung Po Tsai, and Grace O'Malley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1649, Thomas Tew ranks 6. Before him are Pope Benedict XIII, Pope Clement XI, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, Marie Anne Mancini, and Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp. After him are Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, John Blow, Jan Luyken, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, and Giuseppe Maria Tomasi. Among people deceased in 1695, Thomas Tew ranks 10. Before him are Henry Purcell, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Johann Ambrosius Bach, Pierre Mignard, Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and Zumbi. After him are François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Georg von Derfflinger, Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, and Huang Zongxi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Tew ranks 1,342 out of 8,785. Before him are Victor Turner (1920), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), Malcolm McLaren (1946), Horace Walpole (1717), James Glaisher (1809), and Paul Scholes (1974). After him are George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), Anne Perry (1938), Roger Fenton (1819), Edmund Kean (1787), George Atwood (1745), and Edward Waring (1736).

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Among PIRATES In United Kingdom

Among pirates born in United Kingdom, Thomas Tew ranks 11. Before him are Bartholomew Roberts (1682), William Kidd (1645), Henry Every (1659), Benjamin Hornigold (1680), Charles Vane (1680), and Samuel Bellamy (1689). After him are Edward Low (1690).

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