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Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne

1845 - 1927

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Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, (14 January 1845 – 3 June 1927), was a British statesman who served successively as Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In 1917, during the First World War, he wrote the "Lansdowne letter", advocating in vain a compromise peace. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne has received more than 348,584 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne is the 14,265th most popular politician (down from 13,807th in 2019), the 3,463rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,610th in 2019) and the 469th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne ranks 14,265 out of 19,576. Before him are Heidi Hautala, Ramón Emeterio Betances, Cherie Blair, Malcolm Fraser, Aleida Assmann, and Kang Kyung-wha. After him are John Julius Norwich, Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré, Jimmy Morales, Choe Son-hui, Liberius, and Sandra Roelofs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne ranks 87. Before him are George Kennan, Edward Douglass White, Quanah Parker, Hermann Bollé, Fanny Churberg, and Sámuel Teleki. After him are Archibald Sayce, Johan Henrik Deuntzer, Ragna Nielsen, Herbert Giles, Edmund Reitter, and Johann Berger. Among people deceased in 1927, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne ranks 112. Before him are Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Wang Guowei, Hermann von Stein, Marianne Stokes, Henri Hubert, and Friedrich Reinitzer. After him are Leonard Nelson, John Henry Davies, Marie Spartali Stillman, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, J. B. Bury, and Vincenzo Cerulli.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne ranks 3,463 out of 8,785. Before him are James Mellaart (1925), Cherie Blair (1954), Nora Stanton Barney (1883), Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (1893), Frederick William Beechey (1796), and E. A. Wallis Budge (1857). After him are Leonard Meredith (1882), Jim Sturgess (1978), Peter Maxwell Davies (1934), Simeon Solomon (1840), John Julius Norwich (1929), and Mark Lindsay Chapman (1954).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne ranks 469. Before him are Gerrard Winstanley (1609), Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628), Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768), Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (1964), Keir Starmer (1962), and Cherie Blair (1954). After him are John Julius Norwich (1929), Ken Livingstone (1945), Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), Hywel Dda (880), and William Huskisson (1770).

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