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Walter Bagehot

1826 - 1877

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Walter Bagehot ( BAJ-ət; 3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877) was an English journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, literature and race. He is known for co-founding the National Review in 1855, and for his works The English Constitution and Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (1873). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Bagehot is the 2,574th most popular writer (down from 2,355th in 2019), the 2,169th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,746th in 2019) and the 243rd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Walter Bagehot ranks 2,574 out of 7,302. Before him are Fyodor Sologub, Margit Sandemo, Picander, Vasile Alecsandri, Charlotte Buff, and Malik Muhammad Jayasi. After him are Luo Yixiu, William Peter Blatty, Theodore Abu Qurrah, Joseph Görres, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and John the Lydian.

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Among people born in 1826, Walter Bagehot ranks 30. Before him are Karl Gegenbaur, Julia Grant, Giovanni Battista Donati, George B. McClellan, Stephen Foster, and Giuseppe Zanardelli. After him are Gustave Moynier, Rahime Perestu Sultan, Frederic Edwin Church, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Hormuzd Rassam, and Richard Christopher Carrington. Among people deceased in 1877, Walter Bagehot ranks 32. Before him are Constantine Kanaris, Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Pōmare IV, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine, and Alexander Braun. After him are Alexandre Herculano, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Louise Bertin, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Charles Wilkes, and José de Alencar.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Walter Bagehot ranks 2,169 out of 8,785. Before him are John Loudon McAdam (1756), Ron Harris (1944), David Coulthard (1971), David Crystal (1941), Randolph Churchill (1911), and Jeremiah Clarke (1674). After him are Eliza Poe (1787), Lesley-Anne Down (1954), Max Mallowan (1904), Andrew Smith (1797), Stephen Dillane (1957), and Thomas Henderson (1798).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Walter Bagehot ranks 243. Before him are Charles Mackay (1814), Stephen Baxter (1957), George Whitefield (1714), Rebecca West (1892), Donald Adamson (1939), and David Crystal (1941). After him are Sophie Kinsella (1969), Michael Grant (1914), Thomas Percy (1729), John Wyndham (1903), David Ogilvy (1911), and Anna Sewell (1820).

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