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William Beckford

1760 - 1844

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William Thomas Beckford (29 September 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, art critic, planter and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner. The son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Beckford has received more than 14,657 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). William Beckford is the 2,267th most popular writer (down from 2,225th in 2019), the 1,753rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,701st in 2019) and the 196th most popular British Writer.

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  • 15k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Beckford ranks 2,267 out of 5,755. Before him are Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Phan Bội Châu, Jean Raspail, Elisabeth of Schönau, Paschasius Radbertus, and Rebecca West. After him are Johann Karl August Musäus, Audre Lorde, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Terence McKenna, Wieland Wagner, and Richard Wurmbrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, William Beckford ranks 18. Before him are Jan Ladislav Dussek, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Aloysia Weber, Jean-François Le Sueur, Akbar II, and Johann Peter Hebel. After him are Christian Kramp, Constantine Ypsilantis, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Olof Swartz, and Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth. Among people deceased in 1844, William Beckford ranks 21. Before him are Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily, Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, Henri Gatien Bertrand, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Marie Harel, and Francis Baily. After him are Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Johannes van den Bosch, Jacques Laffitte, Alexander von Benckendorff, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, and Yevgeny Baratynsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Beckford ranks 1,753 out of 7,765. Before him are John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), Julian of Norwich (1342), Tom Ellis (1978), Randolph Churchill (1911), and Rebecca West (1892). After him are Elizabeth Tudor (1492), Jeremy Corbyn (1949), Robert Blake (1599), The Edge (1961), William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738), and Anthony Dawson (1916).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Beckford ranks 196. Before him are Tobias Smollett (1721), Robert Southey (1774), Noël Coward (1899), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), and Rebecca West (1892). After him are Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868), George Whitefield (1714), Orderic Vitalis (1075), Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878), James Boswell (1740), and Clive Barker (1952).

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