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James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie

1812 - 1860

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James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (22 April 1812 – 19 December 1860), known as the Earl of Dalhousie between 1838 and 1849, was a Scottish statesman and colonial administrator in British India. He served as Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. He established the foundations of the colonial educational system in India by adding mass education in addition to elite higher education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie has received more than 943,976 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie is the 6,141st most popular politician (down from 4,955th in 2019), the 1,226th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,055th in 2019) and the 208th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 6,141 out of 19,576. Before him are Minoru Genda, Radama I, King Wuling of Zhao, Mette Frederiksen, Gaius Julius Vindex, and Nizamüddin Ahmed Pasha. After him are Infanta Eulalia of Spain, Emperor Hanazono, Sancho IV of Pamplona, George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Ronald Venetiaan, and Itzcoatl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 20. Before him are Maria Cristina of Savoy, Alfred Krupp, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Pertevniyal Sultan, Robert Browning, and Natalia Pushkina. After him are Friedrich von Flotow, Paul Abadie, Edward Lear, Zuo Zongtang, Édouard Séguin, and Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès. Among people deceased in 1860, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 16. Before him are Julia Pastrana, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, István Széchenyi, William Walker, and Ang Duong. After him are Carl Ritter von Ghega, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Thomas Addison, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, and Ii Naosuke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 1,226 out of 8,785. Before him are Alasdair Gray (1934), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Black (1962), Stephen Hales (1677), Dave Evans (1953), and Jimmy Savile (1926). After him are George Biddell Airy (1801), Robert Stirling (1790), Ciarán Hinds (1953), Frances Shand Kydd (1936), Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855), and John Hunter (1728).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 208. Before him are Rob Roy MacGregor (1671), Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287), Spencer Perceval (1762), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763), and Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1375). After him are Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869), Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883), Katharine, Duchess of Kent (1933), Ceawlin of Wessex (600), John Hawkwood (1320), and Thomas Gresham (1519).

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