MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hugh Dowding

1882 - 1970

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Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain's defence, and hence, the defeat of Operation Sea Lion, Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Britain. Born in Moffat, Scotland, Dowding was an officer in the British Army in the 1900s and early 1910s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugh Dowding has received more than 723,038 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Hugh Dowding is the 1,178th most popular military personnel (down from 1,070th in 2019), the 2,017th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,015th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hugh Dowding ranks 1,178 out of 2,058. Before him are Semyon Krivoshein, William Brown, Oku Yasukata, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Kodama Gentarō, and Ivan Tyulenev. After him are Andrei Shkuro, Leontius, Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Josias von Heeringen, Isaac Brock, and Alexios Strategopoulos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Hugh Dowding ranks 128. Before him are Cai E, Leo White, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Halil Kut, Károly Huszár, and Joseph Cardijn. After him are Maurice Germot, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Karl Valentin, Huseyn Javid, Holland Smith, and Nicolae Titulescu. Among people deceased in 1970, Hugh Dowding ranks 112. Before him are Alfred Newman, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Marlen Haushofer, Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, Marietta Blau, and Fernand Crommelynck. After him are Romaine Brooks, Alexander Gode, Unica Zürn, Félix Gaillard, Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and Max Abegglen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Dowding ranks 2,017 out of 8,785. Before him are Andy Gibb (1958), Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847), John Loudon McAdam (1756), Graham Nash (1942), Peter James (1948), and Marjorie Boulton (1924). After him are John Bull (1562), John Mills (1908), John Smeaton (1724), Robert Smith (1959), John Stevens Henslow (1796), and Gordon Milne (1937).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Hugh Dowding ranks 47. Before him are Arthur Percival (1887), James Wolfe (1727), Arthur Rostron (1869), Edward Vernon (1684), Harold Bride (1890), and Melita Norwood (1912). After him are John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), John Burgoyne (1722), Claude Auchinleck (1884), Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890), Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889), and Ronald Speirs (1920).

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