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Mary Read

1695 - 1721

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Mary Read (died April 1721), was a pirate who served under John Rackham. She and Anne Bonny were among the few female pirates during the "Golden Age of Piracy". Much of Read's background is unknown. The first biography of Read comes from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 book, A General History of the Pyrates. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Read is the 10th most popular pirate (down from 7th in 2019), the 549th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 396th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Pirate.

Mary Wollstonecraft is most famous for her feminist work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

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Among PIRATES

Among pirates, Mary Read ranks 10 out of 29. Before her are Blackbeard, Ching Shih, Calico Jack, Grace O'Malley, Anne Bonny, and D. B. Cooper. After her are Bartholomew Roberts, William Kidd, Henry Every, François l'Olonnais, Sextus Pompey, and Benjamin Hornigold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1695, Mary Read ranks 1. After her are Pietro Locatelli, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Henri Pitot, Adrien Manglard, John Bevis, Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti, Giuseppe Sammartini, François de Cuvilliés, Martin van Meytens, and Carl Gustaf Tessin. Among people deceased in 1721, Mary Read ranks 4. Before her are Pope Clement XI, Jean-Antoine Watteau, and Alexander Selkirk. After her are Johann Christoph Bach, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Charles Vane, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Edward Colston, and Pierre Daniel Huet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Read ranks 549 out of 8,785. Before her are Peter Brook (1925), Henry Hudson (1570), Edmund Crouchback (1245), Thomas Becket (1119), Henry Moore (1898), and Sam Neill (1947). After her are Pope Adrian IV (1100), James IV of Scotland (1473), Edmund I (921), Kenneth MacAlpin (810), Austen Chamberlain (1863), and Harry Kroto (1939).

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Among PIRATES In United Kingdom

Among pirates born in United Kingdom, Mary Read ranks 4. Before her are Henry Morgan (1635), Blackbeard (1680), and Calico Jack (1682). After her are Bartholomew Roberts (1682), William Kidd (1645), Henry Every (1659), Benjamin Hornigold (1680), Charles Vane (1680), Samuel Bellamy (1689), Thomas Tew (1649), and Edward Low (1690).

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