RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Dolly Pentreath

1692 - 1777

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Dorothy Pentreath (bap. 16 May 1692 – 26 December 1777) was a Cornish fishwife. She is one of the last known fluent speakers of the Cornish language. She is also often credited as the last known native speaker of Cornish, although sources support the existence of other younger speakers of the language who survived her. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dolly Pentreath is the 2,799th most popular religious figure (down from 2,796th in 2019), the 3,965th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,157th in 2019) and the 94th most popular British Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Dolly Pentreath ranks 2,799 out of 3,187. Before her are Giacomo Capuzzi, Giuseppe Merisi, Chandramukhi Basu, Urbano Navarrete Cortés, Maximos V Hakim, and Laurence of Byzantium. After her are Hugh O'Flaherty, Luis Aponte Martínez, Ariulf of Spoleto, Matthew Parker, Marcelo González Martín, and Hermann Volk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1692, Dolly Pentreath ranks 13. Before her are Adrienne Lecouvreur, Frederick William, Duke of Courland, Alessandro Albani, Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, James Stirling, and Joseph Butler. After her is Filippo Randazzo. Among people deceased in 1777, Dolly Pentreath ranks 22. Before her are Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Alexander Sumarokov, Dai Zhen, Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset. After her are John Morton, Mir Qasim, Pratap Singh Shah, John Bartram, and Button Gwinnett.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dolly Pentreath ranks 3,966 out of 8,785. Before her are Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887), Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), Peter Mullan (1959), Peter Osgood (1947), Mark Lindsay Chapman (1954), and Ian Stuart Donaldson (1957). After her are Henry of Huntingdon (1080), Ann Bishop (1899), Charles P. Dixon (1873), Harry Maguire (1993), John Derbyshire (1878), and Robert Hugh Benson (1871).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United Kingdom

Among religious figures born in United Kingdom, Dolly Pentreath ranks 94. Before her are Patrick Abercrombie (1879), Vincent Nichols (1945), Wilfrid (634), Rowan Williams (1950), Chad of Mercia (634), and Hilda of Whitby (614). After her are Matthew Parker (1504), Ajahn Brahm (1951), Cædmon (657), Nicholas Ridley (1500), Roger of Wendover (1200), and Saint Mungo (518).

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