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Henry Pelham

1694 - 1754

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Henry Pelham (25 September 1694 – 6 March 1754) was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1743 until his death in 1754. He was the younger brother of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, who served in Pelham's government and succeeded him as prime minister. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Pelham has received more than 471,993 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Henry Pelham is the 7,531st most popular politician (up from 7,997th in 2019), the 1,492nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,676th in 2019) and the 241st most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Henry Pelham ranks 7,531 out of 19,576. Before him are Maurice Yaméogo, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Zu Ding, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Motilal Nehru, and Stephen I, Ban of Bosnia. After him are Jeongjong, 10th monarch of Goryeo, Mutimir of Serbia, Shar-Kali-Sharri, Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins, Aioulf, and Boril of Bulgaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1694, Henry Pelham ranks 12. Before him are Leonardo Leo, Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Georg Brandt, Paul of the Cross, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, and Theodore of Corsica. After him are Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Johan Helmich Roman, Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach, Augustine Washington, and Charles-Antoine Coypel. Among people deceased in 1754, Henry Pelham ranks 9. Before him are Abraham de Moivre, Ludvig Holberg, Maria Anna of Austria, Henry Fielding, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and Jacopo Riccati. After him are Edward Cave, Nicolai Eigtved, Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Wu Jingzi, and Friedrich von Hagedorn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Pelham ranks 1,492 out of 8,785. Before him are Arthur Phillip (1738), Jeff Lynne (1947), Vera Lynn (1917), George Smith (1840), Roger Byrne (1929), and John Henry Poynting (1852). After him are John Bagot Glubb (1897), Emily Watson (1967), Maggie Reilly (1956), Anthony Trollope (1815), Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373), and John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Henry Pelham ranks 241. Before him are Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799), Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673), Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944), Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), and Arthur Phillip (1738). After him are Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373), John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504), Edward the Exile (1016), William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708), William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720), and George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608).

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