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George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney

1737 - 1806

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George Macartney should not be confused with Sir George Macartney, a later British statesman. George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat who served as the governor of Grenada, Madras and the British-occupied Cape Colony. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney has received more than 228,692 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney is the 12,377th most popular politician (down from 7,658th in 2019), the 2,658th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,602nd in 2019) and the 386th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney ranks 12,377 out of 19,576Before him are Hovik Abrahamyan, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen, Li Zhaoxing, Sargent Shriver, and Julius Saturninus. After him are Erika Steinbach, Euphemus, Ōmura Masujirō, Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais, Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, and Marduk-zakir-shumi I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney ranks 26Before him are Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Iosif Igelström, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Suzanne Curchod, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, and Maria Caterina Brignole. After him are Alexander Dalrymple, Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Vasily Bazhenov, Charles Hutton, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and Arthur St. Clair. Among people deceased in 1806, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney ranks 40Before him are Timothy Dexter, Jean Joseph Mounier, Eugenios Voulgaris, Charles James Fox, Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, and Gabriel François Doyen. After him are Karoline von Günderrode, Henry Knox, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter, Ignaz Schiffermüller, Heinrich Christian Boie, and Benjamin Banneker.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney ranks 2,658 out of 8,785Before him are William Curtis (1746), James Somerville (1882), James Young Simpson (1811), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678), Andrew Bell (1753), and Jamie Oliver (1975). After him are William Wilson (1844), Ian Rankin (1960), Elaine Paige (1948), John Neville (1925), Rupert Brooke (1887), and Alexander Dalrymple (1737).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney ranks 386Before him are Constance Markievicz (1868), Caradoc (470), Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903), Henry Pottinger (1789), George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946), and John Turner (1929). After him are Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521), Centwine of Wessex (643), John Wilkes (1725), Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871), Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443), and Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841).