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William Cobbett

1763 - 1835

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William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign activity, and raise wages, with the goal of easing poverty among farm labourers and small land holders. Cobbett backed lower taxes, saving, reversing commons enclosures and returning to the gold standard. He opposed borough-mongers, sinecurists, bureaucratic "tax-eaters" and stockbrokers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Cobbett is the 5,442nd most popular writer (up from 5,919th in 2019), the 4,366th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,737th in 2019) and the 472nd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, William Cobbett ranks 5,442 out of 7,302. Before him are Ingrid Noll, Álvares de Azevedo, Lucius Shepard, Zośka Vieras, Chaim Potok, and Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov. After him are Robert Christgau, Rafael Cadenas, Jeanne Dumée, Francis Carco, Cynthia McLeod, and Alison Lurie.

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Among people born in 1763, William Cobbett ranks 39. Before him are Fyodor Rostopchin, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Dmitry Senyavin, Pierre Adet, Johann Baptist Allgaier, and Johann Gottfried Seume. After him are Wolfe Tone, János Batsányi, Jens Esmark, and Charles Bulfinch. Among people deceased in 1835, William Cobbett ranks 34. Before him are Wenzel Müller, Thomas Hardwicke, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito, Pauline Auzou, and Andreas Miaoulis. After him are Muthuswami Dikshitar, Kazimierz Brodziński, James Hogg, and Felicia Hemans.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, William Cobbett ranks 4,367 out of 8,785. Before him are George Edwards (1694), William Henry Young (1863), Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (1964), Michael Kitchen (1948), Nevile Henderson (1882), and Ralph Ineson (1969). After him are Alan Brown (1919), Jimmy Armfield (1935), Colin Salmon (1962), Jessica Ennis-Hill (1986), Miles Dempsey (1896), and Basil Dearden (1911).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Cobbett ranks 472. Before him are Aneirin (525), Pat Barker (1943), Anne V. Coates (1925), Donald Rayfield (1942), Margery Kempe (1373), and M. R. James (1862). After him are Sax Rohmer (1883), William Muir (1819), Susan Blackmore (1951), Jonathan Stroud (1970), Daniel Tammet (1979), and Abraham Cowley (1618).

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