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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

1784 - 1865

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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and from 1859 to 1865. A member of the Liberal Party, Palmerston was the first Liberal Prime Minister, and he dominated British foreign policy from 1830 to 1865, when Britain stood at the height of its imperial power. He held office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston has received more than 2,775,550 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston is the 23rd most popular diplomat (down from 20th in 2019), the 615th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 531st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Diplomat.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, is most famous for his role as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834 and again from 1835 to 1841.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 23 out of 90. Before him are Mohamed ElBaradei, Alva Myrdal, Antony Blinken, Hasekura Tsunenaga, George F. Kennan, and Chiune Sugihara. After him are Viktor Chernomyrdin, Megasthenes, Thomas Klestil, Édith Cresson, Irina Bokova, and Hans Blix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 9. Before him are Zachary Taylor, Friedrich Bessel, Marie-Antoine Carême, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Louis Spohr, and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. After him are Karl Thomas Mozart, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Rafael del Riego, Leo von Klenze, and François Rude. Among people deceased in 1865, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 10. Before him are Ignaz Semmelweis, Leopold I of Belgium, Emil Lenz, William Rowan Hamilton, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, and Johann Franz Encke. After him are Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Robert FitzRoy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, and Heinrich Barth.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 615 out of 8,785. Before him are Louis Wain (1860), Thomas Hardy (1840), James II of Scotland (1430), Nigel Mansell (1953), Brian Epstein (1934), and Robert II of Scotland (1316). After him are John le Carré (1931), Bryan Ferry (1945), Eduard Suess (1831), Tony Buzan (1942), Tilda Swinton (1960), and Jerome K. Jerome (1859).

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Among DIPLOMATS In United Kingdom

Among diplomats born in United Kingdom, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 2. Before him are Chaim Herzog (1918). After him are Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864), Ernest Mason Satow (1843), and Seán Lester (1888).

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