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William Stukeley

1687 - 1765

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William Stukeley (7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765) was an English antiquarian, physician and Anglican clergyman. A significant influence on the later development of archaeology, he pioneered the scholarly investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire. He published over twenty books on archaeology and other subjects during his lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Stukeley has received more than 217,879 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. William Stukeley is the 581st most popular physician (down from 521st in 2019), the 3,581st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,364th in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Physician.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Stukeley ranks 581 out of 726. Before him are Hélène Sparrow, Napoleon Cybulski, Emil Holub, William Beaumont, Madeleine Pelletier, and Willem Piso. After him are Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Gregorio Marañón, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, and Adelaida Avagyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1687, William Stukeley ranks 12. Before him are Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Johann Georg Pisendel, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, and Robert Simson.  Among people deceased in 1765, William Stukeley ranks 20. Before him are Edward Young, Johan Agrell, Johann Melchior Molter, Carl Alexander Clerck, Prokop Diviš, and Richard Pococke. After him is Prince Frederick of Great Britain.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Stukeley ranks 3,581 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry of Huntingdon (1080), Jonathan Coe (1961), Miriam Rothschild (1908), Kenney Jones (1948), John Anderson (1833), and Callum Keith Rennie (1960). After him are John Moore (1761), Roy Wood (1946), Richard Bentley (1662), Jack Straw (1946), Colin Groves (1942), and Robin Cook (1946).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, William Stukeley ranks 51. Before him are Anthony Carlisle (1768), Frederick Twort (1877), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), Thomas Francis Wade (1818), Richard Leach Maddox (1816), and John Arbuthnot (1667). After him are Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783), Astley Cooper (1768), Emily Blackwell (1826), Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), and Archie Cochrane (1909).

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