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Samuel Butler

1612 - 1680

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Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was an English poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem titled Hudibras. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Butler is the 952nd most popular writer (up from 1,185th in 2019), the 887th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 890th in 2019) and the 97th most popular British Writer.

Samuel Butler is most famous for his satirical novel, "Erewhon," in which he criticizes Victorian society and the Church of England.

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Among writers, Samuel Butler ranks 952 out of 7,302. Before him are Emma Orczy, Prudentius, Percy Fawcett, Virginia Satir, Lucius Accius, and Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné. After him are Mirza Fatali Akhundov, George Steiner, Ernesto Sabato, Hrotsvitha, Horatio Alger, and Peter Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1612, Samuel Butler ranks 9. Before him are Wu Sangui, Louis Le Vau, Saskia van Uylenburgh, Thomas Fairfax, Pierre Mignard, and Antoine Arnauld. After him are Peter Stuyvesant, Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Margherita de' Medici, and Şehzade Bayezid. Among people deceased in 1680, Samuel Butler ranks 11. Before him are Kateri Tekakwitha, Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, Nicolas Fouquet, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Willem Claesz. Heda, and Jan Swammerdam. After him are Ferdinand Bol, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Emperor Go-Mizunoo, Thomas Bartholin, Ivan Sirko, and La Voisin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Butler ranks 887 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897), James Macpherson (1736), Percy Fawcett (1867), Robbie Williams (1974), Bobby Robson (1933), and David McCallum (1933). After him are Eugen d'Albert (1864), John Henry Newman (1801), Kathleen Ferrier (1912), Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660), Charles Lee (1731), and Bernard Hill (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Butler ranks 97. Before him are H. Rider Haggard (1856), Christopher Tolkien (1924), Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878), Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809), David Irving (1938), and Percy Fawcett (1867). After him are Bruce Chatwin (1940), Philip Pullman (1946), George Gissing (1857), E. M. Forster (1879), Ann Radcliffe (1764), and John Fowles (1926).

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