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Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

1862 - 1933

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Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (25 April 1862 – 7 September 1933), better known as Sir Edward Grey, was a British Liberal statesman and the main force behind British foreign policy in the era of the First World War. An adherent of the "New Liberalism", he served as foreign secretary from 1905 to 1916, the longest continuous tenure of any holder of that office. He renewed the 1902 alliance with Japan in 1911. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon has received more than 391,689 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon is the 7,097th most popular politician (up from 7,320th in 2019), the 1,548th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,529th in 2019) and the 257th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon ranks 7,097 out of 15,710. Before him are Tai Geng, Tey, Setepenre, Kaliman Asen II of Bulgaria, Robert III of Worms, and Jean-Marc Ayrault. After him are Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg, István Dobi, Meir Dagan, Sati Beg, Prince Konrad of Bavaria, and Juan María Bordaberry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon ranks 54. Before him are Mikhail Nesterov, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Louis Botha, Cao Kun, Nitobe Inazō, and Nicholas Murray Butler. After him are August Oetker, Eugen Ehrlich, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, René Viviani, and Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky. Among people deceased in 1933, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon ranks 41. Before him are Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Hasan Prishtina, Nitobe Inazō, Friedrich Zander, and Theodor Lessing. After him are Henri Duparc, Roscoe Arbuckle, Hermann von François, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Carl Correns, and Giovanni Giacometti.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon ranks 1,548 out of 6,924. Before him are Tom Sharpe (1928), Max Mallowan (1904), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), Rafael Merry del Val (1865), Rosamund Pike (1979), and Michael Halliday (1925). After him are John Loudon McAdam (1756), Louis Wain (1860), Anne Perry (1938), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Michael Sheen (1969), and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon ranks 257. Before him are Andrew Bertie (1929), George Grenville (1712), Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836), Sid Watkins (1928), John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404), and George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784). After him are Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Catherine Ashton (1956), George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737), Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870), Ælle of Sussex (500), and William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738).

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