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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 Anglo-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 518,580 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley is the 1,547th most popular military personnel (down from 1,381st in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 226th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Irish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 1,547 out of 1,468. Before him are Hossein Salami, Lloyd Fredendall, Hudson Austin, Stanley Maude, James Stockdale, and Jacob L. Devers. After him are Charles Leclerc, Rufina Gasheva, John F. Reynolds, Michael Mullen, George W. Casey Jr., and Issam Zahreddine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 65. Before him are Constantine V of Constantinople, Cándido Bareiro, Salvador Jovellanos, Baron Karl von Hasenauer, José María de Pereda, and Edwin Booth. After him are Petre S. Aurelian, Ludwig von Brenner, Antonio Flores Jijón, Charles Bradlaugh, Luis Cordero Crespo, and Duncan Stewart. Among people deceased in 1913, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 71. Before him are Louis Hémon, Angelo de Gubernatis, Leonid Sobolev, Camille Jenatzy, Elena Guro, and Gregorio María Aguirre y García. After him are Henry Flagler, Miroslav Kraljević, Frederick Rolfe, Robert Collett, George Finnegan, and Daniel David Palmer.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 233 out of 501. Before him are J. B. Bury (1861), Patrick Ryan (1881), Steve Barron (1956), Agnes Mary Clerke (1842), Wolfe Tone (1763), and Ciarán of Clonmacnoise (516). After him are Katie McGrath (1983), Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848), Harry Clarke (1889), Damien Rice (1973), Martin Sheridan (1881), and Evanna Lynch (1991).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ireland

Among military personnels born in Ireland, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 7. Before him are Peter Lacy (1678), Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883), William Brown (1777), Richard Montgomery (1738), George Browne (1698), and Alan Cunningham (1887). After him are Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779) and Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864).

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