1930 - Today
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 496,077 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Douglas Hurd is the 15,648th most popular politician (down from 13,670th in 2019), the 4,582nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,260th in 2019) and the 566th most popular Politician.
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Among politicians, Douglas Hurd ranks 15,648 out of 15,577. Before him are Fabián Alarcón, Kinga Göncz, Marc Garneau, Reem Frainah, Prince Ali bin Hussein, and Anand Satyanand. After him are Atlanersa, Ulf Kristersson, Nelson Demarco, Bruno Le Maire, Pablo Iglesias Turrión, and Iter-pisha.
1947 - Present
HPI: 42.42
Rank: 15,642
1947 - Present
HPI: 42.42
Rank: 15,643
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.42
Rank: 15,644
HPI: 42.42
Rank: 15,645
1975 - Present
HPI: 42.41
Rank: 15,646
1944 - Present
HPI: 42.40
Rank: 15,647
1930 - Present
HPI: 42.40
Rank: 15,648
650 BC - 639 BC
HPI: 42.40
Rank: 15,649
1963 - Present
HPI: 42.40
Rank: 15,650
1925 - 2009
HPI: 42.39
Rank: 15,651
1969 - Present
HPI: 42.39
Rank: 15,652
1978 - Present
HPI: 42.39
Rank: 15,653
HPI: 42.38
Rank: 15,654
Among people born in 1930, Douglas Hurd ranks 476. Before him are Jiří Skobla, Elaine Stewart, Kjell Espmark, Georg Stollenwerk, Wojciech Zabłocki, and Armando Segato. After him are Conn Findlay, Jim Loscutoff, Norman Johnson, José Jiménez Lozano, Louis Meznarie, and Heather Harper.
1930 - 1978
HPI: 42.96
Rank: 470
1930 - 2011
HPI: 42.86
Rank: 471
1930 - Present
HPI: 42.82
Rank: 472
1930 - 2014
HPI: 42.81
Rank: 473
1930 - 2020
HPI: 42.51
Rank: 474
1930 - 1973
HPI: 42.47
Rank: 475
1930 - Present
HPI: 42.40
Rank: 476
1930 - 2021
HPI: 42.38
Rank: 477
1930 - 2015
HPI: 42.30
Rank: 478
1930 - 2017
HPI: 42.24
Rank: 479
1930 - 2020
HPI: 42.16
Rank: 480
1930 - 2020
HPI: 42.10
Rank: 481
1930 - 2019
HPI: 41.95
Rank: 482
Among people born in United Kingdom, Douglas Hurd ranks 4,582 out of 7,765. Before him are Neil Innes (1944), David Platt (1966), Teddy Sinclair (1986), Dennis Taylor (1949), Lily Allen (1985), and John Castle (1940). After him are Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869), Archibald Geikie (1835), Richard Briers (1934), Anthony Newley (1931), Anne V. Coates (1925), and William Yarrell (1784).
1944 - 2019
HPI: 42.43
Rank: 4,576
1966 - Present
HPI: 42.43
Rank: 4,577
1986 - Present
HPI: 42.42
Rank: 4,578
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.42
Rank: 4,579
1985 - Present
HPI: 42.41
Rank: 4,580
1940 - Present
HPI: 42.40
Rank: 4,581
1930 - Present
HPI: 42.40
Rank: 4,582
1869 - 1926
HPI: 42.40
Rank: 4,583
1835 - 1924
HPI: 42.40
Rank: 4,584
1934 - 2013
HPI: 42.39
Rank: 4,585
1931 - 1999
HPI: 42.37
Rank: 4,586
1925 - 2018
HPI: 42.37
Rank: 4,587
1784 - 1856
HPI: 42.37
Rank: 4,588
Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Douglas Hurd ranks 566. Before him are James Oglethorpe (1696), David Owen (1938), Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831), Algernon Sidney (1623), Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785), and Anna of East Anglia (null). After him are Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421), Reginald McKenna (1863), Princess Claire of Belgium (1974), Abraham Beame (1906), Samuel Plimsoll (1824), and Neil Kinnock (1942).
1696 - 1785
HPI: 42.83
Rank: 560
1938 - Present
HPI: 42.82
Rank: 561
1831 - 1890
HPI: 42.82
Rank: 562
1623 - 1683
HPI: 42.82
Rank: 563
1785 - 1856
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 564
HPI: 42.46
Rank: 565
1930 - Present
HPI: 42.40
Rank: 566
1421 - 1461
HPI: 42.32
Rank: 567
1863 - 1943
HPI: 42.26
Rank: 568
1974 - Present
HPI: 42.23
Rank: 569
1906 - 2001
HPI: 42.21
Rank: 570
1824 - 1898
HPI: 42.11
Rank: 571
1942 - Present
HPI: 42.08
Rank: 572