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Tobias Smollett

1721 - 1771

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Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish writer and surgeon. He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), which influenced later generations of British novelists, including Charles Dickens. His novels were liberally altered by contemporary printers; an authoritative edition of each was edited by Dr O. M. Brack Jr and others. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tobias Smollett is the 2,286th most popular writer (up from 2,606th in 2019), the 1,962nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,928th in 2019) and the 220th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Tobias Smollett ranks 2,286 out of 7,302. Before him are Mkhitar Sebastatsi, Jurij Brězan, Al-Busiri, Alma Karlin, Walter of Châtillon, and Frankétienne. After him are Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Ding Ling, Fernando de Rojas, János Arany, Sigismund von Herberstein, and Paul Du Chaillu.

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Among people born in 1721, Tobias Smollett ranks 11. Before him are Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Johann Kirnberger, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, and Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. After him are Samuel von Brukenthal, Joseph de Guignes, Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Francesco Sabatini. Among people deceased in 1771, Tobias Smollett ranks 12. Before him are Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Henri Pitot, John Bevis, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, František Brixi, and Thomas Gray. After him are Dmitry Laptev, Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Alexei Razumovsky, Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal, Johann Gottlieb Graun, and Konrad Ernst Ackermann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tobias Smollett ranks 1,962 out of 8,785. Before him are Thom Yorke (1968), Gary Brooker (1945), Dan McCafferty (1946), Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Ralph Richardson (1902), and Richard Parkes Bonington (1801). After him are Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin (1914), John Maynard Smith (1920), Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Nick Simper (1945), John Boorman (1933), and Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Tobias Smollett ranks 220. Before him are Colin Wilson (1931), Matthew Arnold (1822), Edward FitzGerald (1809), Thomas Gray (1716), James Herbert Brennan (1940), and Dick Francis (1920). After him are Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868), Orderic Vitalis (1075), Ouida (1839), Mary Astell (1666), John Fletcher (1579), and Kenneth Grahame (1859).

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