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Thomas Cook

1808 - 1892

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Thomas Cook (22 November 1808 – 18 July 1892) was the founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was born into a poor family in Derbyshire and left school at the age of ten to start work as a gardener's boy. He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker before becoming an itinerant Baptist preacher. He was a supporter of the temperance movement and his first foray into tourism was a railway excursion to Loughborough for members of the Leicester Temperance Society in 1841. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Cook is the 126th most popular businessperson (down from 63rd in 2019), the 940th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 415th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Businessperson.

Thomas Cook is a British travel agency that was founded in 1841 by Thomas Cook. They offer package holidays, airline tickets, and rail tickets.

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Among businesspeople, Thomas Cook ranks 126 out of 847. Before him are Ferdinand Piëch, Charlie Munger, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Elizabeth Christ Trump, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Louis Chevrolet. After him are Cornelius Vanderbilt, Eusebi Güell, Michele Ferrero, Gianni Infantino, Max Manus, and Uli Hoeneß.

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Among people born in 1808, Thomas Cook ranks 17. Before him are Gérard de Nerval, Johann Gustav Droysen, David Strauss, Maria Malibran, Carl Spitzweg, and Mohammad Shah Qajar. After him are George Robert Gray, Princess Louise of Prussia, Nimatullah Kassab, Wilhelm Weitling, José de Espronceda, and Henrik Wergeland. Among people deceased in 1892, Thomas Cook ranks 20. Before him are Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Deodoro da Fonseca, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, and Henry Walter Bates. After him are Tewfik Pasha, Charles Spurgeon, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, George Biddell Airy, Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, and Cyrus West Field.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cook ranks 940 out of 8,785. Before him are Jim Broadbent (1949), Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (1499), Rob Halford (1951), Simon Cowell (1959), Thomas Hill Green (1836), and Tom Wilkinson (1948). After him are Ray Milland (1907), Ann Radcliffe (1764), John Fowles (1926), George Martin (1926), William Penn (1645), and Naomi Watts (1968).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cook ranks 11. Before him are Bernie Ecclestone (1930), Ron Dennis (1947), Stanley Rous (1895), J. Bruce Ismay (1862), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), and Brian Epstein (1934). After him are John McAfee (1945), Thomas Lipton (1848), Henry Cole (1808), Vidal Sassoon (1928), David Icke (1952), and Edward Cave (1691).

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