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Gerald Gardner

1884 - 1964

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Gerald Brosseau Gardner (13 June 1884 – 12 February 1964), also known by the craft name Scire, was an English Wiccan, author, and amateur anthropologist and archaeologist. He was instrumental in bringing the modern pagan religion of Wicca to public attention, writing some of its definitive religious texts and founding the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca. Born into an upper-middle-class family in Blundellsands, Lancashire, Gardner spent much of his childhood abroad in Madeira. In 1900, he moved to colonial Ceylon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gerald Gardner is the 681st most popular writer (up from 2,594th in 2019), the 633rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,916th in 2019) and the 65th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Gerald Gardner ranks 681 out of 7,302. Before him are Bernard Gui, Longus, Faxian, Jaroslav Seifert, Zecharia Sitchin, and Olga Tokarczuk. After him are Pietro Metastasio, Ferenc Molnár, Joseph Murphy, Daphne du Maurier, Walter Raleigh, and Frano Selak.

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Among people born in 1884, Gerald Gardner ranks 30. Before him are Auguste Piccard, Casimir Funk, Lion Feuchtwanger, Vincent Auriol, Emil Jannings, and Rudolf Bultmann. After him are Edward Sapir, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Rajendra Prasad, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Max Beckmann, and Panait Istrati. Among people deceased in 1964, Gerald Gardner ranks 19. Before him are Gerhard Domagk, Ian Fleming, Vasily Grossman, Sigfrid Edström, Gerrit Rietveld, and Palmiro Togliatti. After him are Karl Polanyi, Alvin York, Alexander Archipenko, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Otto Grotewohl, and Giorgio Morandi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gerald Gardner ranks 633 out of 8,785. Before him are James Parkinson (1755), A. A. Milne (1882), Bernie Ecclestone (1930), G. H. Hardy (1877), Brook Taylor (1685), and William Godwin (1756). After him are Trevor Howard (1913), Daphne du Maurier (1907), Walter Raleigh (1554), Nick Mason (1944), Angus Young (1955), and Ron Dennis (1947).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Gerald Gardner ranks 65. Before him are Harold Pinter (1930), Samuel Johnson (1709), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), A. J. Cronin (1896), Alexander Pope (1688), and A. A. Milne (1882). After him are Daphne du Maurier (1907), Walter Raleigh (1554), Muriel Spark (1918), Matthew Lewis (1775), Patrick White (1912), and Robert Burton (1577).

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