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Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings

1754 - 1826

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Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, (9 December 1754 – 28 November 1826), styled The Honourable Francis Rawdon from birth until 1762, Lord Rawdon between 1762 and 1783, The Lord Rawdon from 1783 to 1793 and The Earl of Moira between 1793 and 1816, was an Anglo-Irish politician and military officer who served as Governor-General of India from 1813 to 1823. He had also served with British forces for years during the American Revolutionary War and in 1794 during the War of the First Coalition. In Ireland, he was critical of the policy of coercion used to break the United Irish movement for representative government and national independence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings has received more than 422,124 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings is the 16,375th most popular politician (down from 15,123rd in 2019).

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings ranks 16,375 out of 19,576. Before him are Modibo Sidibé, Nina Agadzhanova, Theo de Meester, Laurent Nkunda, Stanley Wagner, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. After him are Princess Alia bint Hussein, Lionel Aingimea, Nellie McClung, Nikos Kotzias, Koto Matsudaira, and Annette Schavan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings ranks 55. Before him are Hipólito Ruiz López, Juan Meléndez Valdés, Alexander Shishkov, George Crabbe, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, and Abraham Baldwin. After him are Archibald Menzies, and Joel Barlow. Among people deceased in 1826, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings ranks 51. Before him are Jacob Hübner, Nicolas Fuss, Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, John Farey Sr., Antoni Malczewski, and Ferdinand Bauer. After him are Iolo Morganwg, and Isaac Shelby.

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