MILITARY PERSONNEL

Arthur Rostron

1869 - 1940

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Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD (14 May 1869 – 4 November 1940) was a British merchant seaman and a seagoing officer for the Cunard Line. He is best known as the captain of the ocean liner RMS Carpathia, when it rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic after the ship sank in 1912 in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. Rostron won wide praise for his energetic efforts to reach the Titanic before she sank, and his efficient preparations for and conduct of the rescue of the survivors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Rostron has received more than 598,286 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Arthur Rostron is the 1,132nd most popular military personnel (down from 963rd in 2019), the 1,936th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,782nd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Arthur Rostron ranks 1,132 out of 2,058. Before him are Alexander Matrosov, Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Max Pauly, Petar Bojović, Nadezhda Durova, and Pierre André de Suffren. After him are Edward Vernon, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Robert Gould Shaw, Doris Miller, Grigory Shtern, and Drogo of Hauteville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Arthur Rostron ranks 79. Before him are Michael von Faulhaber, Konstantin Somov, Léon Brunschvicg, Paul Émile Chabas, Slobodan Jovanović, and Ramón Menéndez Pidal. After him are Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria, Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, Nicolae Paulescu, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Kiến Phúc. Among people deceased in 1940, Arthur Rostron ranks 84. Before him are Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, Cai Yuanpei, José Félix Estigarribia, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Giuseppe Motta, and Albert Kahn. After him are Yevhen Petrushevych, Madeleine Astor, Ivane Javakhishvili, Umberto Caligaris, Robert Maillart, and Walter Hasenclever.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Rostron ranks 1,936 out of 8,785. Before him are Louisa Adams (1775), Richard Long (1945), John Gould (1804), June Whitfield (1925), Adele (1988), and Andy Whitfield (1971). After him are David Knopfler (1952), Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730), Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516), Edward Vernon (1684), Tony Banks (1950), and John Wyndham (1903).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Arthur Rostron ranks 43. Before him are John Fastolf (1380), William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729), Horatio Gates (1727), FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), Arthur Percival (1887), and James Wolfe (1727). After him are Edward Vernon (1684), Harold Bride (1890), Melita Norwood (1912), Hugh Dowding (1882), John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), and John Burgoyne (1722).

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