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Henry Shrapnel

1761 - 1842

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Lieutenant-General Henry Scrope Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) was a British Army officer whose name has entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Shrapnel is the 339th most popular inventor (down from 298th in 2019), the 3,911th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,011th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henry Shrapnel ranks 339 out of 426. Before him are John Philip Holland, Joseph Engelberger, Roland Moreno, Harry Brearley, Heinrich Gerber, and André Blondel. After him are Edward Lawry Norton, David Dunbar Buick, William Fothergill Cooke, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, Ivan Polzunov, and John Wilkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Henry Shrapnel ranks 40. Before him are Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Dorothea Jordan, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Albert Gallatin, Samuel Dexter, and Ludwig Abeille. After him are Joshua Brookes, John Opie, John Rennie the Elder, and Sybil Ludington. Among people deceased in 1842, Henry Shrapnel ranks 37. Before him are Thomas Arnold, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Leona Vicario, Aleksey Koltsov, and Wilhelm Gesenius. After him are William Ellery Channing, Archibald Menzies, William Hobson, James Barbour, John Sell Cotman, and Amos Eaton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Shrapnel ranks 3,912 out of 8,785. Before him are Walter Burley (1275), Chad of Mercia (634), May Sutton (1886), Richard Dormer (1969), Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany (1340), and Reece James (1999). After him are Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809), W. W. Jacobs (1863), Charles Avison (1709), William Froude (1810), Verney Lovett Cameron (1844), and Hilda of Whitby (614).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Henry Shrapnel ranks 53. Before him are Joseph Whitworth (1803), Samuel Morland (1625), George Graham (1673), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Abraham Darby I (1678), and Harry Brearley (1871). After him are David Dunbar Buick (1854), William Fothergill Cooke (1806), John Wilkinson (1728), Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), and Joseph Bramah (1748).

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