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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 878,526 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie is the 4,966th most popular politician (up from 7,517th in 2019), the 1,058th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,641st in 2019) and the 179th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 4,966 out of 15,577Before him are Attalus, Bertha of Savoy, Ernő Gerő, Gunther, Raymond of Burgundy, and Joaquim Chissano. After him are Sophia of Halshany, Vittoria della Rovere, Glafcos Clerides, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, Mithridates V of Pontus, and Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 16Before him are Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Ascanio Sobrero, Maria Cristina of Savoy, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Alfred Krupp, and Sigismond Thalberg. After him are Friedrich von Flotow, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Robert Browning, Natalia Pushkina, Paul Abadie, and Zuo Zongtang. Among people deceased in 1860, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 15Before him are Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, William Walker, István Széchenyi, Julia Pastrana, and Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro. After him are George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Thomas Addison, Carl Ritter von Ghega, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Ang Duong, and Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 1,058 out of 7,765Before him are Michael Houghton (1949), Kim Wilde (1960), Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900), Stewart Granger (1913), Mary Ann Nichols (1845), and Twiggy (1949). After him are John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718), Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (1945), Frank Oz (1944), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), Roy Hodgson (1947), and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900).

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