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Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

1881 - 1959

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Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most notably those of Viceroy of India from 1926 to 1931 and of Foreign Secretary between 1938 and 1940. He was one of the architects of the policy of appeasement of Adolf Hitler in 1936–1938, working closely with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax has received more than 2,462,829 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax is the 3,871st most popular politician (up from 5,184th in 2019), the 852nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,149th in 2019) and the 149th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ranks 3,871 out of 15,577. Before him are Chadli Bendjedid, Daemusin of Goguryeo, Salva Kiir Mayardit, Amaro Pargo, Ala ad-Din Tekish, and Mohammad Shah Qajar. After him are Causantín mac Cináeda, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Eric II of Norway, Olave Baden-Powell, Claude Louis Hector de Villars, and Rudolph III of Burgundy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ranks 46. Before him are Theodore von Kármán, Ivan Ribar, Otto Bauer, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, William Boeing, and Emil Ludwig. After him are Ludwig Binswanger, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Sveinn Björnsson, Cecil B. DeMille, Victor Klemperer, and Giovanni Papini. Among people deceased in 1959, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ranks 28. Before him are Edward C. Tolman, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Ettore Majorana, Raphael Lemkin, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, and John Foster Dulles. After him are Cecil B. DeMille, Enrico De Nicola, Alfred Kubin, Mario Lanza, Wanda Landowska, and Rudolf Caracciola.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ranks 852 out of 7,765. Before him are John Cale (1942), John Cockcroft (1897), Damon Hill (1960), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671), Albert Pierrepoint (1905), and W. H. Auden (1907). After him are Olave Baden-Powell (1889), William Penn (1645), William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), Billy Idol (1955), Harthacnut I of Denmark (880), and John Hawkins (1532).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ranks 149. Before him are Denis Thatcher (1915), Malcolm III of Scotland (1031), Joseph Chamberlain (1836), Malcolm IV of Scotland (1141), Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764), and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671). After him are Olave Baden-Powell (1889), William Penn (1645), Harthacnut I of Denmark (880), Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (1915), Duncan I of Scotland (1001), and Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884).

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