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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 twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period 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 2,610,636 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston is the 20th most popular diplomat, the 531st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 624th in 2019) and the 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 20 out of 52Before him are Folke Bernadotte, Mohamed ElBaradei, John R. Bolton, Alva Myrdal, Hasekura Tsunenaga, and Chiune Sugihara. After him are Chaim Herzog, George F. Kennan, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Megasthenes, Thomas Klestil, and George Blake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 8Before him are Jérôme Bonaparte, Zachary Taylor, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Friedrich Bessel, Karl Thomas Mozart, and Marie-Antoine Carême. After him are Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Louis Spohr, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Leo von Klenze, François Rude, and Rafael del Riego. Among people deceased in 1865, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 9Before him are Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Leopold I of Belgium, Ignaz Semmelweis, Emil Lenz, William Rowan Hamilton, and Anna Pavlovna of Russia. After him are Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Heinrich Barth, Robert FitzRoy, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Shoqan Walikhanov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 531 out of 7,765Before him are Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848), G. H. Hardy (1877), Diana Rigg (1938), Desmond Llewelyn (1914), Walter Raleigh (1554), and Norman Haworth (1883). After him are Richard Griffiths (1947), Raymond Cattell (1905), J. Bruce Ismay (1862), James III of Scotland (1451), Æthelberht, King of Wessex (836), and Chaim Herzog (1918).

Among DIPLOMATS In United Kingdom

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