Thomas Cook

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Figure

Domain

Society

Knowledge cost

2

Influence

3

Resistance

3

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

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.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Thomas Cook”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.