MILITARY PERSONNEL

David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty

1871 - 1936

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Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, (17 January 1871 – 12 March 1936) was a Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Mahdist War and then the response to the Boxer Rebellion, he commanded the Battle Cruiser Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after which his aggressive approach was contrasted with the caution of his commander Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. He is remembered for his comment at Jutland that "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today", after two of them exploded. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty has received more than 655,345 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty is the 1,211th most popular military personnel (down from 1,067th in 2019), the 2,072nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,007th in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 1,211 out of 2,058. Before him are Erik Heinrichs, Mundus, Nikephoros Phokas the Elder, Abbakka Chowta, Blagoje Adžić, and Wilhelm Brückner. After him are Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Miguel Cabanellas, Otto Schniewind, Heinrich von Bellegarde, Kuroki Tamemoto, and Chram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 75. Before him are John Millington Synge, Wilhelm von Mirbach, Arthur Tansley, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Ivan Poddubny, and Claus Schilling. After him are Hubert Cecil Booth, Emily Carr, Kōtoku Shūsui, Oscar Wisting, Martin Knudsen, and Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro. Among people deceased in 1936, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 97. Before him are Jean Patou, Svetozar Pribićević, Sophie, Princess of Albania, Juliette Adam, Dezső Kosztolányi, and Ivan Smirnov. After him are Alexander Guchkov, Fatma Aliye Topuz, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Oscar Wisting, and Bhikaiji Cama.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 2,072 out of 8,785. Before him are Tom Courtenay (1937), Edward Balliol (1283), Glenn Murcutt (1936), Robert Holdstock (1948), Steve Winwood (1948), and Alexander Parkes (1813). After him are Josephine Tey (1896), Marion Chesney (1936), David Byrne (1952), Roderick Murchison (1792), Frank Finlay (1926), and James Herriot (1916).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 54. Before him are John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), John Burgoyne (1722), Claude Auchinleck (1884), Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890), Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889), and Ronald Speirs (1920). After him are Claude Choules (1901), J. F. C. Fuller (1878), John Paul Jones (1747), Gregor MacGregor (1786), David Stirling (1915), and Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880).

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