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Hugh Clapperton

1788 - 1827

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Bain Hugh Clapperton (18 May 1788 – 13 April 1827) was a British naval officer and explorer of West and Central Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugh Clapperton is the 345th most popular explorer (up from 421st in 2019), the 3,063rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,981st in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Hugh Clapperton ranks 345 out of 498. Before him are Meriwether Lewis, Georg August Wallin, Louis de Freycinet, Alexander Gordon Laing, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and Yuri Lisyansky. After him are Sebastián Vizcaíno, Domingo Martínez de Irala, Paweł Strzelecki, Juan de Oñate, Florence Baker, and Alexander Dalrymple.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Hugh Clapperton ranks 46. Before him are Pavel Kiselyov, Juraj Haulik, Simon Sechter, Edward Sabine, Spyridon Trikoupis, and Margaret Taylor. After him are Gheorghe Asachi, Edwin Atherstone, Kikuchi Yōsai, Mikhail Shchepkin, Tomás de Zumalacárregui, and Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet. Among people deceased in 1827, Hugh Clapperton ranks 29. Before him are Heinrich Boie, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Charlotte von Stein, Countess Friederike von Schlieben, Pōmare III, and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn. After him are János Bihari, François Fournier-Sarlovèze, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Henry Salt, and Charles Willson Peale.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Clapperton ranks 3,064 out of 8,785. Before him are John Profumo (1915), Christopher Eccleston (1964), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), James Francis Stephens (1792), Joseph Whitworth (1803), and Kelly Brook (1979). After him are Michael Oakeshott (1901), Charles Gray (1928), Douglas Hartree (1897), Freddie Jones (1927), Sigeberht of Wessex (750), and James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Hugh Clapperton ranks 40. Before him are William Smith (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), John Byron (1723), Lady Hester Stanhope (1776), John McDouall Stuart (1815), and Alexander Gordon Laing (1794). After him are Alexander Dalrymple (1737), Humphrey Gilbert (1539), Vivian Fuchs (1908), John Biscoe (1794), George Bass (1771), and John Moresby (1830).

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