WRITER

Walter Bagehot

1826 - 1877

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Walter Bagehot ( BAJ-ət; 3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877) was an English journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, literature and race. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Bagehot has received more than 596,838 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Bagehot is the 2,355th most popular writer (down from 1,995th in 2019), the 1,745th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,580th in 2019) and the 189th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 600k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The collected works of Walter Bagehot
English literature, History and criticism, Politics and government
1965
Literary studies
English literature, History and criticism, Politics and government
1800
Lombard Street
Banks and banking, Money, Finance
1873
The English constitution
Politics and government, Constitutional history, Constitutional law
1867
Biographical studies
Statesmen, British Statesmen, Biography
1881
Physics and politics
Evolution, Political science, Nationalism
1873

Page views of Walter Bagehots by language

Over the past year Walter Bagehot has had the most page views in the with 52,220 views, followed by Japanese (5,762), and French (5,656). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (106.14%), Irish (85.30%), and Estonian (42.32%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Walter Bagehot ranks 2,355 out of 7,302. Before him are Karel Hynek Mácha, Phocylides, Margit Sandemo, Philip Sidney, Juan de Valdés, and Paul Adam. After him are Dmytro Dontsov, Maksim Bahdanovič, Ybyrai Altynsarin, Frigyes Karinthy, Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, and Salvadore Cammarano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Walter Bagehot ranks 24. Before him are Karl von Piloty, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Henri Mouhot, George Johnstone Stoney, and Cetshwayo kaMpande. After him are Stephen Foster, Giuseppe Zanardelli, Gustave Moynier, William Waddington, Giovanni Battista Donati, and Hormuzd Rassam. Among people deceased in 1877, Walter Bagehot ranks 28. Before him are Kido Takayoshi, Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Philipp Veit, Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff. After him are Pōmare IV, Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Alexandre Herculano, Louise Bertin, and Alexander Braun.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Walter Bagehot ranks 1,745 out of 8,785. Before him are Steven Runciman (1903), Anthony Quayle (1913), Margaret Scriven (1912), Owain Glyndŵr (1359), Philip Sidney (1554), and Geri Halliwell (1972). After him are Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), Orlando Gibbons (1583), Kim Wilde (1960), Antony Beevor (1946), William Auld (1924), and Pieter de Molijn (1595).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Walter Bagehot ranks 189. Before him are Donald Adamson (1939), Richard Aldington (1892), Kingsley Amis (1922), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), Terry Eagleton (1943), and Philip Sidney (1554). After him are William Auld (1924), Leonard Woolf (1880), Taliesin (518), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), and Dorothy L. Sayers (1893).

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