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Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon

1866 - 1941

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Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), styled as the Earl of Willingdon between 1931 and 1936, was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governor General of Canada and as Viceroy and Governor-General of India. Freeman-Thomas was born in England and educated at Eton College and then the University of Cambridge before serving for 15 years in the Sussex Artillery. He then entered the diplomatic and political fields, acting as aide-de-camp to his father-in-law when the latter was Governor of Victoria and, in 1900, was elected to the British House of Commons. He thereafter occupied a variety of government posts, including secretary to the British prime minister and, after being raised to the peerage as Lord Willingdon, as Lord-in-waiting to King George V. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon has received more than 328,833 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon is the 14,850th most popular politician (down from 13,388th in 2019), the 4,311th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,026th in 2019) and the 526th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon ranks 14,850 out of 15,577Before him are Philippa of Armenia, Joaquín Chapaprieta, KP Sharma Oli, Ali Babacan, H. R. Haldeman, and Carlos Roberto Flores. After him are Tom Clarke, Aslaug Dahl, Dimitrios Maximos, Lotay Tshering, Justiniano Borgoño, and Galina Shamrai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon ranks 130Before him are Cornelia Sorabji, Georges de la Falaise, Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman, Hiram Johnson, James Ewing, and Ernest Mangnall. After him are Ole Østmo, E. W. Hornung, Matthew Henson, Saliamonas Banaitis, Albertson Van Zo Post, and David Samanez Ocampo. Among people deceased in 1941, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon ranks 164Before him are Ludwig Stubbendorf, Juan Corzo, Hermann Wilker, Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith, Wilhelm Leichum, and Hugh Walpole. After him are Alexander Afinogenov, George Beauchamp, Lucien Mérignac, Frederick Moloney, Hamilton Harty, and Victor Schertzinger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon ranks 4,311 out of 7,765Before him are Ernest Mangnall (1866), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), A. V. Dicey (1835), R. M. Ballantyne (1825), Polly Walker (1966), and John André (1750). After him are Tom Clarke (1858), Leslie Johnson (1912), Jimmy Murphy (1910), Alex Jennings (1957), Richard Thompson (1949), and Michael Caton-Jones (1957).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon ranks 526Before him are Charles Bradlaugh (1833), John Prescott (1938), Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (1868), George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784), Grantley Goulding (1874), and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801). After him are Tom Clarke (1858), Keir Hardie (1856), Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536), John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811), Aneurin Bevan (1897), and Joseph Cook (1860).