MILITARY PERSONNEL

George Anson, 1st Baron Anson

1697 - 1762

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Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, (23 April 1697 – 6 June 1762) was a British Royal Navy officer, politician and peer from the Anson family. He served as a junior officer during the War of the Spanish Succession and then saw active service against Spain at the Battle of Cape Passaro, off the south tip of Sicily, during the War of the Quadruple Alliance. He then undertook a circumnavigation of the globe during the War of Jenkins' Ear. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Anson, 1st Baron Anson has received more than 348,933 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). George Anson, 1st Baron Anson is the 1,804th most popular military personnel (down from 1,408th in 2019), the 3,641st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,917th in 2019) and the 96th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, George Anson, 1st Baron Anson ranks 1,804 out of 2,058. Before him are John F. Reynolds, Mindarus, Arseny Golovko, Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, Adasi, and Dudley Pound. After him are Richard S. Ewell, Richard Marcinko, John Eisenhower, William Birdwood, Luigi Capello, and Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1697, George Anson, 1st Baron Anson ranks 18. Before him are Nicola Salvi, Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, Christine Kirch, Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and Francesco Antonio Vallotti. After him are Joseph François Dupleix, and John Peter Zenger. Among people deceased in 1762, George Anson, 1st Baron Anson ranks 23. Before him are Dorothea Erxleben, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Stanisław Poniatowski, Francesco Manfredini, Francesco Loredan, and Jan Frederik Gronovius.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Anson, 1st Baron Anson ranks 3,641 out of 8,785. Before him are Christopher O'Neill (1974), Mary F. Lyon (1925), John Smith (1938), Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), Sydney Greenstreet (1879), and Roger Dean (1944). After him are David Dunbar Buick (1854), David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919), William Davies Evans (1790), Roger Allam (1953), Raymond Leppard (1927), and Peter Cook (1936).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, George Anson, 1st Baron Anson ranks 96. Before him are John Byng (1704), Boston Corbett (1832), Eddie Chapman (1914), Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827), John Moore (1761), and Dudley Pound (1877). After him are Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591), Captain Tom (1920), Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726), George Milne, 1st Baron Milne (1866), Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton (1663), and Reginald Wingate (1861).

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