POLITICIAN

Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

1799 - 1869

Photo of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

Icon of person Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869), known as Lord Stanley from 1834 to 1851, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served three times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. To date, he is the longest-serving leader of the Conservative Party (1846–68). He is one of only four British prime ministers to have three or more separate periods in office. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby has received more than 831,125 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby is the 7,233rd most popular politician (down from 6,555th in 2019), the 1,424th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,361st in 2019) and the 235th most popular British Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 830k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ranks 7,233 out of 19,576. Before him are António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, Bernhard Schmidt, Bohemond VI of Antioch, Onjo of Baekje, and Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza. After him are Théophile Delcassé, Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of Sicily, Emperor Gao of Southern Qi, Hadım Sinan Pasha, Ernesto Zedillo, and Rotrude.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ranks 16. Before him are Charles II, Duke of Parma, Fromental Halévy, Anna Atkins, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Rodolphe Töpffer, and Karl Adolph von Basedow. After him are John Lindley, Vincenz Priessnitz, Countess of Ségur, René Caillié, Almeida Garrett, and Ferenc Gyulay. Among people deceased in 1869, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ranks 20. Before him are Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Carl Loewe, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Alexandrine Tinné, Roger Fenton, and Carl Gustav Carus. After him are Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, John A. Roebling, Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Giulia Grisi, Carl Reichenbach, and Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.

Others Born in 1799

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1869

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ranks 1,424 out of 8,785. Before him are Timothy Spall (1957), Richard Henderson (1945), John William Godward (1861), Julia Ormond (1965), Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721), and Sophie Turner (1996). After him are Richard J. Roberts (1943), Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673), Ethel Smyth (1858), Alan Baker (1939), Alison Steadman (1946), and Rhys Ifans (1967).

Others born in United Kingdom

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ranks 235. Before him are John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404), John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (1384), John Bowring (1792), Herbert Pitman (1877), Constantine II of Scotland (801), and Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721). After him are Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673), Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944), Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Arthur Phillip (1738), and Henry Pelham (1694).

British born Politicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous