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William Chambers

1723 - 1796

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Sir William Chambers (23 February 1723 – 10 March 1796) was a Swedish-Scottish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, and the pagoda at Kew. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Chambers has received more than 12,523 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). William Chambers is the 306th most popular architect (down from 270th in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 379th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Architect.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, William Chambers ranks 306 out of 518. Before him are Christopher Alexander, Carlo Rossi, Moshe Safdie, Paul Wallot, Giovanni da Udine, and Juan Bautista de Toledo. After him are Albert Kahn, Charles Jencks, Dominikus Zimmermann, Joseph Poelaert, Thom Mayne, and Helmut Jahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, William Chambers ranks 23. Before him are Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Mary of Great Britain, Antoine Louis, Pehr Osbeck, William Blackstone, and Marcus Elieser Bloch. After him are Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, William Livingston, John Byron, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, and Richard Price. Among people deceased in 1796, William Chambers ranks 21. Before him are Velu Nachiyar, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, and François Séverin Marceau. After him are Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Juan José Elhuyar, Philip Carteret, Adam Naruszewicz, David Allan, and Ulrika Pasch.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, William Chambers ranks 464 out of 1,879. Before him are Martin Dahlin (1968), Gösta Ekman (1890), Sven-Bertil Taube (1934), Jarl Kulle (1927), Henrik Sjöberg (1875), and Richard Bergh (1858). After him are Sven Davidson (1928), Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), Tor Aulin (1866), Eric Ericson (1918), Nils von Kantzow (1885), and Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp (1883).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Sweden

Among architects born in Sweden, William Chambers ranks 3. Before him are Gunnar Asplund (1885), and Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654). After him are Augustin Ehrensvärd (1710), Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz (1716), Ragnar Östberg (1866), Sven Markelius (1889), and Ferdinand Boberg (1860).

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