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Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge

1785 - 1856

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Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, (30 March 1785 – 24 September 1856) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving in the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign he became Secretary at War in Wellington's ministry. After a tour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1830 he became Secretary at War again in Sir Robert Peel's cabinet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge has received more than 175,489 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge is the 15,153rd most popular politician (down from 13,751st in 2019), the 4,535th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,314th in 2019) and the 546th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge ranks 15,153 out of 15,577Before him are Mairead McGuinness, Avril Haines, Dudley Senanayake, Osred I of Northumbria, Neil Abercrombie, and Jim Risch. After him are Francis Hopkinson, William Paterson, Spyridon Chazapis, Manuel Robles Pezuela, Petras Klimas, and Wael Nader al-Halqi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge ranks 53Before him are Oliver Hazard Perry, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Per Georg Scheutz, Thomas Love Peacock, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, and Arvid August Afzelius. After him are John Oxley and Gabriel Moore. Among people deceased in 1856, Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge ranks 46Before him are Johan August Wahlberg, Frederick William Beechey, Ivan Kireyevsky, John M. Clayton, Joseph Meyer, and Michel Félix Dunal. After him are William Yarrell, Thomas Doughty, George Don, John Eaton, and John M. Berrien.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge ranks 4,535 out of 7,765Before him are Anna Popplewell (1988), Bryan Johnson (1926), Kenneth Williams (1926), Hamilton Harty (1879), Darren Fletcher (1984), and Anya Chalotra (1996). After him are Dee Palmer (1937), Glenn Hoddle (1957), Robert Peake the Elder (1551), David Seidler (1937), Chris Smalling (1989), and Matthew Rhys (1974).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge ranks 546Before him are Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705), Hugh Gaitskell (1906), James Oglethorpe (1696), David Owen (1938), Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831), and Algernon Sidney (1623). After him are Douglas Hurd (1930), Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421), Reginald McKenna (1863), Princess Claire of Belgium (1974), Abraham Beame (1906), and Samuel Plimsoll (1824).