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Benjamin Jowett

1817 - 1893

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Benjamin Jowett (, modern variant ; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was an English writer and classical scholar. Additionally, he was an administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, theologian, Anglican cleric, and translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was master of Balliol College, Oxford. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Benjamin Jowett is the 6,777th most popular writer (up from 6,897th in 2024), the 6,383rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 6,478th in 2019) and the 704th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Benjamin Jowett ranks 6,777 out of 7,302. Before him are Nagaru Tanigawa, Arkady Babchenko, James K. Morrow, Asko Parpola, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Alison Weir. After him are Paul Dini, Ihor Pavlyuk, Juli Zeh, Fatima Massaquoi, Aleš Debeljak, and Robert Olen Butler.

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Among people born in 1817, Benjamin Jowett ranks 88. Before him are Palladius, George Holyoake, George Henry Lewes, Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin, Lewis Armistead, and LeRoy Pope Walker.  Among people deceased in 1893, Benjamin Jowett ranks 89. Before him are John Ballance, Aleksandra Potanina, Francis Parkman, Fanny Kemble, John Addington Symonds, and John Rae.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Jowett ranks 6,385 out of 8,785. Before him are Nicholas Parsons (1923), Steve Coppell (1955), OG Anunoby (1997), Alison Weir (1951), John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan (1947), and Nicky Morgan (1972). After him are Billie Piper (1982), Ronald Searle (1920), Mark Millar (1969), Roberta Cowell (1918), Bruce Rioch (1947), and Eliza Doolittle (1988).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Jowett ranks 704. Before him are Victoria Hislop (1959), Sophie Hannah (1971), George Etherege (1635), Edward Thomas (1878), Nicholas Monsarrat (1910), and Alison Weir (1951). After him are Jasper Fforde (1961), Grant Morrison (1960), R. D. Blackmore (1825), Stevie Smith (1902), Carol Ann Duffy (1955), and Louis MacNeice (1907).

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