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Lady Hester Stanhope

1776 - 1839

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Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was a British adventurer, writer, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age. Her excavation of Ascalon in 1815 is considered the first to use modern archaeological principles, and her use of a medieval Italian document is described as "one of the earliest uses of textual sources by field archaeologists". Her letters and memoirs made her famous as an explorer. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lady Hester Stanhope is the 302nd most popular explorer (down from 245th in 2019), the 2,647th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,009th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 302 out of 498. Before her are Grigory Potanin, Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, Juan Pizarro, Pyotr Beketov, Bertrand Piccard, and John Byron. After her are Ippolito Rosellini, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Philip Carteret, John McDouall Stuart, Jacques Labillardière, and Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1776, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 31. Before her are Joseph Görres, Vasily Golovnin, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Karl Friedrich Burdach, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, and François Marie Daudin. After her are Bernardino Drovetti, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Ignaz von Seyfried, Henri Dutrochet, Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg, and Hirata Atsutane. Among people deceased in 1839, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 30. Before her are Dorothea von Schlegel, Maurice de Guérin, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert, and Gaspard de Prony. After her are Denis Davydov, Giuseppe Valadier, Joseph-François Michaud, Yuriy Venelin, Bhimsen Thapa, and Alexander Odoevsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 2,648 out of 8,785. Before her are William Whiston (1667), Colin McDonald (1930), Robert Fisk (1946), John Tavener (1944), John Miles (1949), and John Byron (1723). After her are Chris Lowe (1959), Mark Rylance (1960), Phil Jones (1992), Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583), Frank Bridge (1879), and Colin Clark (1905).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 37. Before her are John Rolfe (1585), Mark Sykes (1879), Richard Chancellor (1521), William Smith (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), and John Byron (1723). After her are John McDouall Stuart (1815), Alexander Gordon Laing (1794), Hugh Clapperton (1788), Alexander Dalrymple (1737), Humphrey Gilbert (1539), and Vivian Fuchs (1908).

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