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Edward Lear

1812 - 1888

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Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals, making coloured drawings during his journeys (which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books) and as a minor illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Lear is the 1,732nd most popular writer (down from 1,668th in 2019), the 1,558th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,281st in 2019) and the 167th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Edward Lear ranks 1,732 out of 7,302. Before him are Theodor Nöldeke, Ahmad ibn Arabshah, Shen Yue, Boris Akunin, Herbjørg Wassmo, and Liu Zongyuan. After him are Caterina Albert, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Julius Firmicus Maternus, Johnston McCulley, Marcellinus Comes, and Arne Garborg.

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Among people born in 1812, Edward Lear ranks 24. Before him are Alfred Krupp, Robert Browning, Pertevniyal Sultan, Paul Abadie, Natalia Pushkina, and Friedrich von Flotow. After him are Ilija Garašanin, Zuo Zongtang, Henry Wilson, Zygmunt Krasiński, Hendrik Conscience, and Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès. Among people deceased in 1888, Edward Lear ranks 26. Before him are Auguste Maquet, Ali Rıza Efendi, Jean-Marie Guyau, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Mary Jane Kelly, and Ludvig Nobel. After him are Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Namık Kemal, Princess Helena of Nassau, Charles Cros, and Elizabeth Stride.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Lear ranks 1,558 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Stephenson (1803), Jack Bruce (1943), George Cayley (1773), Guy Pearce (1967), Warren Hastings (1732), and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565). After him are Emily Watson (1967), Thomas Cole (1801), Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773), William McDougall (1871), Alun Armstrong (1946), and John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edward Lear ranks 167. Before him are Malcolm Lowry (1909), Vita Sackville-West (1892), Karen Armstrong (1944), Robert Harris (1957), Eleanor Hibbert (1906), and Frederic W. H. Myers (1843). After him are Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838), Aphra Behn (1640), Colin Dexter (1930), Ted Hughes (1930), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), and Peter Shaffer (1926).

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