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Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

1678 - 1751

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Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (; 16 September 1678 – 12 December 1751) was an English politician, government official and political philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England politically despite his antireligious views and opposition to theology. Bolingbroke supported the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, which sought to overthrow the new king George I. Escaping to France, he became foreign minister for James Francis Edward Stuart. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke has received more than 373,140 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke is the 1,010th most popular philosopher (down from 929th in 2019), the 2,656th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,434th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke ranks 1,010 out of 1,267. Before him are Tariq Ramadan, Amelius, Ogyū Sorai, Stanley Cavell, Lon L. Fuller, and Androcles. After him are Heinrich Khunrath, Alfonso Reyes, Jacques Cujas, Pierre Lévy, Stanisław Staszic, and Zhang Binglin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1678, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke ranks 13. Before him are Peter Lacy, Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma, Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Adrien Maurice de Noailles, Abraham Darby I, and Jakob Hermann. After him is Pierre Raymond de Montmort. Among people deceased in 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke ranks 20. Before him are Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Nicola Salvi, Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, János Pálffy, and John Machin. After him are George Graham, Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen, Henri François d'Aguesseau, Benjamin Robins, and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke ranks 2,656 out of 8,785. Before him are Constance Lloyd (1858), Georgette Heyer (1902), Dave Legeno (1963), William Curtis (1746), James Somerville (1882), and James Young Simpson (1811). After him are Andrew Bell (1753), Jamie Oliver (1975), George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737), William Wilson (1844), Ian Rankin (1960), and Elaine Paige (1948).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke ranks 64. Before him are Richard Swinburne (1934), Martin Lings (1909), Samuel Clarke (1675), Anna Kingsford (1846), J. M. E. McTaggart (1866), and Thomas Arnold (1795). After him are John Hick (1922), R. M. Hare (1919), Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659), Michael Oakeshott (1901), Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788), and Carole Pateman (1940).

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