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Algernon Sidney

1623 - 1683

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Algernon Sidney or Sydney (15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician, republican political theorist and colonel. A member of the middle part of the Long Parliament and commissioner of the trial of King Charles I of England, he opposed the king's execution. Sidney was later charged with plotting against Charles II, in part based on his most famous work, Discourses Concerning Government, which was used by the prosecution as a witness at his trial. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Algernon Sidney has received more than 282,648 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Algernon Sidney is the 15,081st most popular politician, the 4,489th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 545th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Algernon Sidney ranks 15,081 out of 15,577Before him are James Oglethorpe, Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, Akie Abe, David Owen, Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, and Salou Djibo. After him are Alexander Volkov, Karel De Gucht, Israel Katz, Herman Gref, Osric of Deira, and Jim Ross.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1623, Algernon Sidney ranks 9Before him are Ferdinand Verbiest, Zhu Youlang, Antonio Cesti, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg, and François de Laval.  Among people deceased in 1683, Algernon Sidney ranks 18Before him are Juraj Križanić, John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, John Owen, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, Izaak Walton, and Robert Morison.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Algernon Sidney ranks 4,489 out of 7,765Before him are Alasdair Gray (1934), John Le Mesurier (1912), James Oglethorpe (1696), Iwan Rheon (1985), David Owen (1938), and Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831). After him are Albert Ball (1896), Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920), David O'Leary (1958), Katrin Cartlidge (1961), Zayn Malik (1993), and Solomon (1902).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Algernon Sidney ranks 545Before him are Owain Gwynedd (1100), Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705), Hugh Gaitskell (1906), James Oglethorpe (1696), David Owen (1938), and Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831). After him are Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785), Douglas Hurd (1930), Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421), Reginald McKenna (1863), Princess Claire of Belgium (1974), and Abraham Beame (1906).