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John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland

1504 - 1553

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John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504 – 22 August 1553) was an English general, admiral, and politician, who led the government of the young King Edward VI from 1550 until 1553, and unsuccessfully tried to install Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death. The son of Edmund Dudley, a minister of Henry VII executed by Henry VIII, John Dudley became the ward of Sir Edward Guildford at the age of seven. Dudley grew up in Guildford's household together with his future wife, Guildford's daughter Jane, with whom he was to have 13 children. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland has received more than 1,216,344 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland is the 7,555th most popular politician (down from 5,291st in 2019), the 1,499th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,140th in 2019) and the 243rd most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland ranks 7,555 out of 19,576. Before him are Manishtushu, Bernd Rosemeyer, Mahidol Adulyadej, Nayib Bukele, Haakon II of Norway, and Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York. After him are Maurice Couve de Murville, Qusay Hussein, Quintus Servilius Caepio, Tudhaliya II, Guy Parmelin, and Macrianus Minor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1504, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland ranks 9. Before him are Francesco Primaticcio, Sin Saimdang, Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy, Heinrich Bullinger, George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford, and Guru Angad. After him are Scipione Rebiba, Louis of Granada, Charles Estienne, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Stanislaus Hosius, and Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1553, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland ranks 13. Before him are Pedro de Valdivia, Charles III, Duke of Savoy, Maurice, Elector of Saxony, Girolamo Fracastoro, Sinan Pasha, and Lucrezia de' Medici. After him are Pedro de Toledo y Zúñiga, Wolf Huber, Erasmus Reinhold, Francisco de Montejo, Lord Guildford Dudley, and Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland ranks 1,499 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Pelham (1694), John Bagot Glubb (1897), Emily Watson (1967), Maggie Reilly (1956), Anthony Trollope (1815), and Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373). After him are Paul Bettany (1971), Robert Southey (1774), Dennis Nilsen (1945), Elsa Lanchester (1902), Herbert Kilpin (1870), and Christopher Hitchens (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland ranks 243. Before him are Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944), Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Arthur Phillip (1738), Henry Pelham (1694), and Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373). After him are Edward the Exile (1016), William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708), William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720), George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608), Beorhtric of Wessex (800), and Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840).

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