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Catharine Macaulay

1731 - 1791

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Catharine Macaulay (née Sawbridge, later Graham; 23 March 1731 – 22 June 1791) was a famed English Whig historian. She was the first Englishwoman to become an historian and during her lifetime the world's only published female historian. She was the first English radical to visit America after independence, staying there from 15 July 1784 to 17 July 1785 including time at Mount Vernon with George Washington and his family. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Catharine Macaulay is the 420th most popular historian (up from 475th in 2019), the 3,877th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,138th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Catharine Macaulay ranks 420 out of 561. Before her are Riane Eisler, Cyril Toumanoff, Franz Theodor Kugler, Stephen Greenblatt, Boris Chicherin, and Chimalpahin. After her are Mary Ritter Beard, Andreas Alföldi, Henri Grégoire, Isabella Bashmakova, Anton Heinrich Springer, and Alain Daniélou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1731, Catharine Macaulay ranks 22. Before her are Dirk van der Aa, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Robert Treat Paine, Victor Louis, and Gabriela Silang. After her are Johann August Ephraim Goeze, and Benjamin Banneker. Among people deceased in 1791, Catharine Macaulay ranks 15. Before her are Joseph Gaertner, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Johan Andreas Murray, João de Loureiro, Francesca Lebrun, and Besiki. After her are Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Anna Louisa Karsch, Richard Price, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Benjamin Harrison V, and Francis Hopkinson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Catharine Macaulay ranks 3,878 out of 8,785. Before her are George Nares (1831), Richard Leach Maddox (1816), Herbert Marshall (1890), Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871), Aynsley Dunbar (1946), and Rose Leslie (1987). After her are Ben Chaplin (1969), Geoff Duke (1923), Beth Gibbons (1965), Charles Shaughnessy (1955), Eva Crane (1912), and Muriel Robb (1878).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Catharine Macaulay ranks 40. Before her are Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), Edward Granville Browne (1862), Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914), John Keegan (1934), George Finlay (1799), and Francis Godwin (1562). After her are Henry James Sumner Maine (1822), G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Arthur Smith Woodward (1864), Donald Nicol (1923), Martin Gilbert (1936), and Lawrence Stone (1919).

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