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Robert Owen

1771 - 1858

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Robert Owen (; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist, political philosopher and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement. He strove to improve factory working conditions, promoted experimental socialistic communities, sought a more collective approach to child-rearing, and 'believed in lifelong education, establishing an Institute for the Formation of Character and School for Children that focused less on job skills than on becoming a better person'. He gained wealth in the early 1800s from a textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland. Having trained as a draper in Stamford, Lincolnshire he worked in London before relocating at age 18 to Manchester and textile manufacturing. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Owen is the 28th most popular social activist (down from 21st in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 127th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Social Activist.

Robert Owen was a Welsh social reformer and textile manufacturer who built a model industrial community at New Lanark, Scotland.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Robert Owen ranks 28 out of 840. Before him are Betty Williams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Élie Ducommun, Sophia of Prussia, Emily Greene Balch, and Guy Fawkes. After him are Margaret Sanger, Shirin Ebadi, Charlotte Corday, Thích Quảng Đức, Emiliano Zapata, and Bacha Khan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Robert Owen ranks 3. Before him are Walter Scott, and Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover. After him are Emperor Kōkaku, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Richard Trevithick, Julie Clary, Antoine-Jean Gros, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Alois Senefelder, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, and Marie François Xavier Bichat. Among people deceased in 1858, Robert Owen ranks 4. Before him are Rani of Jhansi, Robert Brown, and Joseph Radetzky von Radetz. After him are John Snow, Hiroshige, Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johannes Peter Müller, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Karl Thomas Mozart, Matthew C. Perry, and Anton Diabelli.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Owen ranks 236 out of 8,785. Before him are C. S. Lewis (1898), Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935), Æthelstan (895), John Wycliffe (1324), Brian May (1947), and Sting (1951). After him are Clementine Churchill (1885), Stuart Sutcliffe (1940), Duns Scotus (1265), J. K. Rowling (1965), James Mason (1909), and Bobby Charlton (1937).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Robert Owen ranks 4. Before him are Nicholas Winton (1909), Betty Williams (1943), and Guy Fawkes (1570). After him are Lady Godiva (990), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), Mairead Maguire (1944), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Annie Besant (1847), Max Mosley (1940), Emily Davison (1872), and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867).

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