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Enoch Powell

1912 - 1998

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John Enoch Powell (16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a British politician, scholar, and writer. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South West for the Conservative Party from 1950 to February 1974 and as MP for South Down for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from October 1974 to 1987. He was Minister of Health from 1960 to 1963 in the second Macmillan ministry and was Shadow Secretary of State for Defence from 1965 to 1968 in the Shadow Cabinet of Ted Heath. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Enoch Powell has received more than 4,551,620 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Enoch Powell is the 13,201st most popular politician (down from 12,106th in 2019), the 2,978th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,795th in 2019) and the 428th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Enoch Powell ranks 13,201 out of 19,576. Before him are Yu Zhengsheng, Émile Derlin Zinsou, Martín Miguel de Güemes, Hans Furler, Alfonso López Pumarejo, and Lascăr Catargiu. After him are Loki Schmidt, Aegidius Tschudi, Manius Acilius Glabrio, Cardinal-Infante Afonso of Portugal, Pete Rose, and Carlos Soublette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Enoch Powell ranks 230. Before him are Niginho, Yusuf Lule, Renato Rascel, Robert Jacobsen, Paul Meurisse, and Erwin Bauer. After him are Jehan Buhan, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, Frank Thomas, Maurice Guigue, Léon Damas, and Roger Courtois. Among people deceased in 1998, Enoch Powell ranks 185. Before him are Gene Autry, Ernesto Grillo, Jon Postel, Zezé Moreira, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, and António Ribeiro. After him are Kim Ki-young, Tammy Wynette, Nicolas Bouvier, Wanda Jakubowska, Pruden, and Jean Shiley.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Enoch Powell ranks 2,978 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Knox (1791), Anthony Phillips (1951), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), Michael Oakeshott (1901), Susanna Hall (1583), and Sue Townsend (1946). After him are James Francis Stephens (1792), Hermione Baddeley (1906), Mark Sheppard (1964), John Peel (1939), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), and Anthony Carlisle (1768).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Enoch Powell ranks 428. Before him are Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812), Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621), Geoffrey Howe (1926), Phil Taylor (1960), Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (1645), and Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798). After him are Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872), Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (1405), Princess Louisa of Great Britain (1749), John Lilburne (1614), Ruth Belville (1854), and Konstantinos Paspatis (1878).

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