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Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone

1874 - 1957

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Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George; born Prince Alexander of Teck; 14 April 1874 – 16 January 1957), was a member of the extended British royal family, as a great-grandson of King George III, a brother of Queen Mary, uncle to the Kings Edward VIII and George VI, and the husband of Princess Alice of Albany. He was a British Army commander, who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa and Governor General of Canada. Prince Alexander was born in London to the Duke and Duchess of Teck and was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone has received more than 784,113 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone is the 10,737th most popular politician (down from 10,413th in 2019), the 2,331st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,405th in 2019) and the 363rd most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ranks 10,737 out of 15,577Before him are Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, Negasso Gidada, Jacinda Ardern, Manuel Roxas, Manuel Esquivel, and Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Alexander Miasnikian, Fatmawati, Cipriano Castro, Karl Verner, Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, and Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ranks 105Before him are Clemens von Pirquet, Wincenty Witos, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Pierre Souvestre, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, and Frédéric François-Marsal. After him are Leopoldo Lugones, Ioannis Mitropoulos, Viggo Jensen, Mikhail Diterikhs, Charles Fort, and Fred Niblo. Among people deceased in 1957, Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ranks 113Before him are Claude Farrère, Josephine Hull, Joseph Augustus Zarelli, Marija Jurić Zagorka, Paja Jovanović, and Frank País. After him are Harald Sverdrup, Ralph Benatzky, Kiyoshi Shiga, James Whale, Peter Freuchen, and Augusto Genina.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ranks 2,331 out of 7,765Before him are Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891), Steven Knight (1959), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Edward Coke (1552), John Latham (1740), and Auguste Couder (1789). After him are Lytton Strachey (1880), Dennis Viollet (1933), Roger Fry (1866), Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (1261), Richard Armitage (1971), and Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ranks 363Before him are Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889), Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215), Caradoc (470), Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (877), James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811), and Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891). After him are Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870), Jeremy Thorpe (1929), Ernest Bevin (1881), Gerry Adams (1948), William Martin (1767), and Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth (1876).