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Douglas Hurd

1930 - Today

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Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, (born 8 March 1930) is a British Conservative Party politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.A career diplomat and political secretary to Prime Minister Edward Heath, Hurd first entered Parliament in February 1974 as MP for the Mid Oxfordshire constituency (Witney from 1983). His first government post was as Minister for Europe from 1979 to 1983 (being that office's inaugural holder) and he served in several Cabinet roles from 1984 onwards, including Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1984–85), Home Secretary (1985–89) and Foreign Secretary (1989–95). He stood unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party leadership in 1990, and retired from frontline politics during a Cabinet reshuffle in 1995.In 1997, Hurd was elevated to the House of Lords and is one of the Conservative Party's most senior elder statesmen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Hurd has received more than 622,465 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Douglas Hurd is the 16,211th most popular politician (down from 15,157th in 2019), the 4,701st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,573rd in 2019) and the 559th most popular British Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Douglas Hurds by language

Over the past year Douglas Hurd has had the most page views in the with 72,238 views, followed by German (3,628), and Simple English (3,149). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Irish (56.89%), Cantonese (54.66%), and Czech (52.25%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Douglas Hurd ranks 16,211 out of 19,576. Before him are Tom Clarke, Hugh Gaitskell, K. Chandrashekar Rao, Rajko Đurić, Peder Kolstad, and Othmar Karas. After him are Manfred Stolpe, Máximo Tajes, Maria Lvova-Belova, Edward Natapei, Franco Comotti, and István Csurka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Douglas Hurd ranks 515. Before him are Fatos Arapi, Petar Šegvić, Allan Williams, George Steinbrenner, Roberta Peters, and Richard Davis. After him are Henry Lincoln, Rober Eryol, Halszka Osmólska, Derek Bailey, Nicole Marthe Le Douarin, and Bertha Brouwer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Douglas Hurd ranks 4,701 out of 8,785. Before him are Tom Clarke (1858), Charles Walter De Vis (1829), Hugh Gaitskell (1906), Alex Kapranos (1972), Wilbert Awdry (1911), and Matt Bellamy (1978). After him are Topper Headon (1955), Henry Lincoln (1930), Julia Donaldson (1948), Anthony Powell (1905), John M. Allegro (1923), and Leigh Hunt (1784).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Douglas Hurd ranks 559. Before him are Robert Morris (1734), Michael Howard (1941), Princess Claire of Belgium (1974), Charles Bradlaugh (1833), Tom Clarke (1858), and Hugh Gaitskell (1906). After him are Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733), Joseph Cook (1860), John Hunter (1737), George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716), Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779), and Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790).

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