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F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich

1782 - 1859

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Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon (1 November 1782 – 28 January 1859), styled The Honourable F. J. Robinson until 1827 and known between 1827 and 1833 as The Viscount Goderich (pronounced GOH-dritch), the name by which he is best known to history, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1827 to 1828. A member of the rural landowning aristocracy, Robinson entered politics through family connections. In the House of Commons, he rose through junior ministerial ranks, achieving cabinet office in 1818 as President of the Board of Trade. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich has received more than 351,466 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich is the 11,200th most popular politician (down from 10,075th in 2019), the 2,326th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,157th in 2019) and the 345th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich ranks 11,200 out of 19,576Before him are Jafar Khan, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Ramón Castilla, Eugen Leviné, Mariana Pineda, and Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. After him are Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, Jayavarman III, Mehmet Ali Talat, Archelaus of Sparta, Adam Gottlob Moltke, and Khamerernebty I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich ranks 33Before him are Conrad Graf, Esaias Tegnér, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Orest Kiprensky, Alexander von Benckendorff, and Julie Guicciardi. After him are Georg August Goldfuss, Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Pōmare II, Daniel Webster, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, and Maha Bandula. Among people deceased in 1859, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich ranks 39Before him are Sergey Aksakov, Tatya Tope, Walter Hunt, Princess Anna of Saxony, William Cranch Bond, and Horace Mann. After him are John Walker, Stefan Bogoridi, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, José de Madrazo y Agudo, Ye Mingchen, and Petrus Borel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich ranks 2,326 out of 8,785Before him are Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), Chris Squire (1948), Guy Edwards (1942), Roger Williams (1603), Jamie Dornan (1982), and Gerry Rafferty (1947). After him are Christopher Hill (1912), Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), John Hadley (1682), Stanley Myers (1930), Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924), and Ephraim Chambers (1680).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich ranks 345Before him are James Harrington (1611), Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889), Margaret of England (1240), James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1531), Marjorie Bruce (1297), and Roger Williams (1603). After him are Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735), Cuthred of Wessex (750), Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1517), John Owen (1616), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), and Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964).