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Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham

1730 - 1782

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Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, (13 May 1730 – 1 July 1782; styled The Hon. Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1739, Viscount Higham between 1733 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750 and The Marquess of Rockingham in 1750) was a British Whig statesman and magnate, most notable for his two terms as prime minister of Great Britain. He became the patron of many Whigs, known as the Rockingham Whigs, and served as a leading Whig grandee. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham has received more than 598,025 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 42 in 2019). Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham is the 10,389th most popular politician (down from 8,113th in 2019), the 2,238th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,773rd in 2019) and the 344th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham ranks 10,389 out of 15,577. Before him are Giorgio Strehler, Vasily Golitsyn, Yevhen Marchuk, Ri Jong-ok, Paul Poupard, and Obizzo II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara. After him are Sinan Hasani, Ahmad Qavam, Fyodor Sergeyev, Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq, Virius Nicomachus Flavianus, and Seuthes I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham ranks 21. Before him are William Hamilton, Motoori Norinaga, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, William Hudson, Augustin Pajou, and Salomon Gessner. After him are Otto Friedrich Müller, Johann Hedwig, Sophie von La Roche, Henry Clinton, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal, and Noël Martin Joseph de Necker. Among people deceased in 1782, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham ranks 23. Before him are Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Sava Petrović, Richard Wilson, and Daniel Solander. After him are Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Sadeq Khan Zand, Christine Kirch, and José Cadalso.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham ranks 2,238 out of 7,765. Before him are Prasutagus (50), Sylvia Pankhurst (1882), George Romney (1734), Rachel Ward (1957), Miriam Margolyes (1941), and Roger Cotes (1682). After him are Prince William of Gloucester (1941), Nick Hornby (1957), Adam Clayton (1960), Anthony Quayle (1913), Llywelyn the Great (1173), and George Mary Searle (1839).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham ranks 344. Before him are Ian Khama (1953), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), David Trimble (1944), John Owen (1616), Phil Taylor (1960), and Prasutagus (50). After him are Prince William of Gloucester (1941), Llywelyn the Great (1173), Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872), Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563), Æthelbald of Mercia (null), and Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903).

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