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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts

1832 - 1914

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Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, (30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914) was a British Victorian era general who became one of the most successful British military commanders of his time. Born in India to an Anglo-Irish family, Roberts joined the East India Company Army and served as a young officer in the Indian Rebellion during which he was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry. He was then transferred to the British Army and fought in the Expedition to Abyssinia and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, in which his exploits earned him widespread fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts has received more than 676,593 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts is the 1,205th most popular military personnel (up from 1,263rd in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from India (up from 403rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ranks 1,205 out of 1,468. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Tomás de Zumalacárregui, Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Jacob Heinrich von Flemming, Hugh Thompson Jr., and Erik Heinrichs. After him are Paavo Talvela, Akashi Motojiro, Karl Koller, Vasily Gordov, Rolf Carls, and Eddie Chapman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ranks 52. Before him are Count Gustav Kálnoky, Lucien Quélet, Edwin Arnold, Julius von Sachs, Alvan Graham Clark, and Colin Archer. After him are Jules Vallès, Charilaos Trikoupis, Mary Edwards Walker, Johann Joseph Abert, Lina Sandell, and Wilhelm Julius Foerster. Among people deceased in 1914, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ranks 61. Before him are Jane Morris, Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg, Albéric Magnard, Giovanni Sgambati, Yu Kil-chun, and David Gill. After him are Pierre Souvestre, Delmira Agustini, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, Roque Sáenz Peña, Pyotr Nesterov, and Mehmed Said Pasha.

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In India

Among people born in India, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ranks 363 out of 1,493. Before him are Sukhdev Thapar (1907), Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911), Kiran Bedi (1949), Prakash Raj (1965), Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (700), and Vichitravirya (null). After him are Vidya Balan (1979), Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Mahbub ul Haq (1934), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), and Jayant Narlikar (1938).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In India

Among military personnels born in India, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ranks 6. Before him are Kim Philby (1912), Baji Rao I (1700), Tatya Tope (1814), Rash Behari Bose (1886), and Mad Mike Hoare (1919). After him are Orde Wingate (1903), Bipin Rawat (1958), Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), John Frost (1912), Sam Manekshaw (1914), and John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910).

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