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MILITARY PERSONNEL

John French, 1st Earl of Ypres

1852 - 1925

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Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, (28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925), known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer. Born in Kent, he saw brief service as a midshipman in the Royal Navy, before becoming a cavalry officer. He achieved rapid promotion and distinguished himself on the Gordon Relief Expedition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John French, 1st Earl of Ypres has received more than 3,027,689 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). John French, 1st Earl of Ypres is the 922nd most popular military personnel (down from 839th in 2019), the 1,702nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,653rd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres ranks 922 out of 1,468. Before him are Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Ding Ruchang, Walton Walker, Max Pauly, Sylvester Stadler, and Franz Moritz von Lacy. After him are Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, Nakano Takeko, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, Dimitrios Loundras, Yevgeny Miller, and Georgios Karaiskakis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres ranks 48. Before him are Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Friedrich Loeffler, Charles W. Fairbanks, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, John Henry Poynting, and Arnold Toynbee. After him are Vera Figner, Leopoldo Alas, Théophile Delcassé, Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal, Otakar Ševčík, and Max von Gallwitz. Among people deceased in 1925, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres ranks 62. Before him are René Viviani, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Anna Schäffer, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Thomas R. Marshall, and Princess Françoise of Orléans. After him are Sheikh Said, Johan August Brinell, Louis Feuillade, Myer Prinstein, Stefan Żeromski, and Joel Hastings Metcalf.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres ranks 1,702 out of 7,765. Before him are Matthew Arnold (1822), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), Ed Sheeran (1991), Kate Sheppard (1848), Arthur Tansley (1871), and Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942). After him are Edward Waring (1736), Kenneth Grahame (1859), Charles Gray (1928), John Wetton (1949), Rupert Grint (1988), and James Connolly (1868).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres ranks 32. Before him are Melita Norwood (1912), Joseph Boxhall (1884), Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), Bertram Ramsay (1883), Edward Vernon (1684), and Harold Bride (1890). After him are Robert Maynard (1684), Robert Blake (1599), FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), Arthur Rostron (1869), Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717), and J. F. C. Fuller (1878).

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