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William Beckford

1760 - 1844

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William Thomas Beckford (1 October 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist; an art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer, plantation owner and sometime politician, reputed at one stage to be the richest commoner in England. The son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. George Hamilton, he served as a Member of Parliament for Wells in 1784–1790 and Hindon in 1790–1795 and 1806–1820. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Beckford has received more than 10,427 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). William Beckford is the 2,226th most popular writer (down from 1,920th in 2019), the 1,703rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,444th in 2019) and the 197th most popular British Writer.

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  • 64.79

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Beckford ranks 2,226 out of 5,794. Before him are Fritz Leiber, Ariwara no Narihira, Karel Hynek Mácha, Hendrik Conscience, Stefan Żeromski, and J.-H. Rosny aîné. After him are Albert Robida, Antimachus, Eugène Marin Labiche, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Judith Kerr, and Isabella di Morra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, William Beckford ranks 16. Before him are Alexandre de Beauharnais, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Johann Peter Hebel, and Aloysia Weber. After him are Jean-François Le Sueur, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Akbar II, Olof Swartz, and Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen. Among people deceased in 1844, William Beckford ranks 19. Before him are Charles Nodier, Jernej Kopitar, Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily, Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, Henri Gatien Bertrand, and Princess Cecilia of Sweden. After him are Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Jacques Laffitte, Marie Harel, Francis Baily, and Yevgeny Baratynsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Beckford ranks 1,703 out of 6,924. Before him are Stuart Lewis-Evans (1930), Karen Armstrong (1944), Phil Lynott (1949), Matthew Flinders (1774), Hugh Hudson (1936), and James Fox (1939). After him are George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608), Tom Hiddleston (1981), Paul W. S. Anderson (1965), Herbert James Draper (1863), Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), and Paul Bettany (1971).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Beckford ranks 197. Before him are Taliesin (518), Kenneth Grahame (1859), George Whitefield (1714), Anna Sewell (1820), John Wyndham (1903), and Karen Armstrong (1944). After him are James Boswell (1740), Frederick Marryat (1792), Dick Francis (1920), David Gemmell (1948), Rebecca West (1892), and Nevil Shute (1899).

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