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Wolfe Tone

1763 - 1798

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Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone (Irish: Bhulbh Teón; 20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a revolutionary exponent of Irish independence and is an iconic figure in Irish republicanism. Convinced that so long as his fellow Protestants feared to make common cause with the Catholic majority, the British Crown would continue to govern Ireland in the interest of England and of its client aristocracy, in 1791 Tone helped form the Society of United Irishmen. Although received in the company of a Catholic delegation by the King and his ministers in London, Tone, with other United Irish leaders, despaired of constitutional reform. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfe Tone has received more than 1,033,719 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Wolfe Tone is the 530th most popular social activist (down from 452nd in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 230th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Social Activist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Wolfe Tone ranks 530 out of 840. Before him are Martin Luther King Sr., Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Doina Cornea, Ramdas Gandhi, Neerja Bhanot, and Dimitrana Ivanova. After him are Manilal Gandhi, Entisar Elsaeed, Prudencia Ayala, Osman Kavala, Marie Stritt, and Mykola Rudenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Wolfe Tone ranks 39. Before him are Johann Baptist Allgaier, Dmitry Senyavin, Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Pierre Adet, and Johann Gottfried Seume. After him are Jens Esmark, William Cobbett, János Batsányi, and Charles Bulfinch. Among people deceased in 1798, Wolfe Tone ranks 26. Before him are George Read, Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda, Laurynas Gucevičius, Karl Wilhelm Ramler, James Wilson, and John Fitch. After him is Thomas Pennant.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Wolfe Tone ranks 237 out of 549. Before him are Ciarán of Clonmacnoise (516), William Quan Judge (1851), Garret FitzGerald (1926), Mabel Cahill (1863), Edward Donovan (1768), and Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822). After him are Stuart Townsend (1972), Robert McClure (1807), Domhnall Gleeson (1983), Charles Haughey (1925), John Connolly (1968), and Henry Kellett (1806).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ireland

Among social activists born in Ireland, Wolfe Tone ranks 3. Before him are William Howard Russell (1820), and Mary Harris Jones (1837). After him are Eoin O'Duffy (1890), Robert Emmet (1778), and William Smith O'Brien (1803).

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