MILITARY PERSONNEL

FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan

1788 - 1855

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Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, (30 September 1788 – 28 June 1855), known before 1852 as Lord FitzRoy Somerset, was a British Army officer. When a junior officer, he served in the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign, latterly as military secretary to the Duke of Wellington. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan has received more than 557,147 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan is the 1,096th most popular military personnel (down from 960th in 2019), the 1,859th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,779th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ranks 1,096 out of 2,058. Before him are Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Raden Wijaya, Emilio Eduardo Massera, Dame Gruev, Horatio Gates, and Teutobod. After him are Alfred Wünnenberg, Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, Arthur Percival, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, David Petraeus, and Nicanor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ranks 31. Before him are Carl Reichenbach, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Felice Romani, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Carl Sigismund Kunth, and Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi. After him are Rafael Urdaneta, Pavel Kiselyov, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Mohammed bin Thani, Franz Pforr, and Juraj Haulik. Among people deceased in 1855, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ranks 27. Before him are Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa, William Parry, August Leopold Crelle, Mariano Arista, Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha, and Princess Charlotte of Prussia. After him are Konstantin Batyushkov, Mihály Vörösmarty, Henri Druey, Louis-Mathieu Molé, Sergey Uvarov, and Carl Anton von Meyer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ranks 1,859 out of 8,785. Before him are Susannah York (1939), John A. Hobson (1858), Eunice Gayson (1928), Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878), Horatio Gates (1727), and Charles Joughin (1878). After him are William of Winchester, Lord of Lunenburg (1184), Mark of Cornwall (480), Roger Fry (1866), Arthur Percival (1887), John Mandeville (1300), and Max Mallowan (1904).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ranks 40. Before him are Paddy Roy Bates (1921), George Rooke (1650), Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), John Fastolf (1380), William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729), and Horatio Gates (1727). After him are Arthur Percival (1887), James Wolfe (1727), Arthur Rostron (1869), Edward Vernon (1684), Harold Bride (1890), and Melita Norwood (1912).

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