MILITARY PERSONNEL

Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley

1833 - 1913

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Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, (4 June 1833 – 25 March 1913), was an Irish officer in the British Army. He became one of the most influential and admired British generals after a series of successes in Canada, West Africa and Egypt, followed by a central role in modernizing the British Army in promoting efficiency. Wolseley is considered to be one of the most prominent and decorated war heroes of the British Empire during the era of New Imperialism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley has received more than 557,548 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley is the 1,784th most popular military personnel (down from 1,544th in 2019), the 208th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 232nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Irish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 1,784 out of 2,058. Before him are Robert Anderson, Kanhoji Angre, Yekaterina Zelenko, Irvin McDowell, Hans von Rosen, and Constantine Diogenes. After him are George W. Casey Jr., Mizuno Tadakuni, Harold Rainsford Stark, András Toma, Myronides, and Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 69. Before him are Baron Karl von Hasenauer, Cándido Bareiro, John Houlding, Frederick Guthrie, Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, and Salvador Jovellanos. After him are John Anderson, Constantine V of Constantinople, José María de Pereda, Ferdinand von Saar, Georgi Valkovich, and Abu Bakar of Johor. Among people deceased in 1913, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 74. Before him are Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, Louis Hémon, Camille Lemonnier, Nicolás de Piérola, Leonid Sobolev, and Juhan Liiv. After him are Adolf Lang, Hugo Winckler, Mathilde Marchesi, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, Miroslav Kraljević, and Paul de Smet de Naeyer.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 208 out of 549. Before him are Richard Todd (1919), Patrick Ryan (1881), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), Sara Allgood (1879), Micheál Martin (1960), and Alison Doody (1966). After him are Hugh O'Flaherty (1898), Larry Mullen Jr. (1961), Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911), Patrick Leahy (1877), George Moore (1852), and Tim Ahearne (1885).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ireland

Among military personnels born in Ireland, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 8. Before him are Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883), William Brown (1777), Richard Montgomery (1738), Alan Cunningham (1887), John de Robeck (1862), and George Browne (1698). After him are Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779), and Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864).

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