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Walter Clopton Wingfield

1833 - 1912

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Major Walter Clopton Wingfield (16 October 1833 – 18 April 1912) was a Welsh inventor and a British Army officer who was one of the pioneers of lawn tennis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Clopton Wingfield has received more than 125,962 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Walter Clopton Wingfield is the 267th most popular inventor (down from 265th in 2019), the 2,606th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,454th in 2019) and the 44th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Walter Clopton Wingfield ranks 267 out of 426. Before him are Wan Hu, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Frederick Scott Archer, Harry Brearley, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, and Louis Lumière. After him are Colin Archer, François Isaac de Rivaz, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Glenn Curtiss, Adolf Martens, and Cyrus McCormick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Walter Clopton Wingfield ranks 47. Before him are Rosa Vercellana, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Benedykt Dybowski, Infanta María Cristina of Spain, Dimitrie Sturdza, and Maurice Loewy. After him are Paul Bert, Johan Ehrnrooth, Antoine Vollon, J. E. B. Stuart, Fredrik von Otter, and Ricardo Palma. Among people deceased in 1912, Walter Clopton Wingfield ranks 84. Before him are José Canalejas, Émile Lemoine, Andrew Lang, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Lewis Boss, and Dmitry Milyutin. After him are William Wilson, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Francis Davis Millet, Joachim III of Constantinople, James Allen, and Antonio Pacinotti.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Walter Clopton Wingfield ranks 2,606 out of 8,785. Before him are Siegfried Sassoon (1886), John Crawfurd (1783), Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (1516), Caradoc (470), Phil Manzanera (1951), and Simon Wright (1963). After him are Gary Neville (1975), Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903), Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847), Henry Pottinger (1789), Ashley Cole (1980), and George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Walter Clopton Wingfield ranks 44. Before him are Joseph Whitworth (1803), Abraham Darby I (1678), James Nasmyth (1808), Arthur Wynne (1871), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), and Harry Brearley (1871). After him are Samuel Morland (1625), John Barnard (1946), Joseph Aspdin (1778), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Rowland Hill (1795), and George Graham (1673).

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