MILITARY PERSONNEL

John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton

1896 - 1989

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Field Marshal Allan Francis Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, (10 February 1896 – 20 January 1989), known as John Harding, was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War, served in the Malayan Emergency, and later advised the British government on the response to the Mau Mau Uprising. He also served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, and was Governor of Cyprus from 1955 to 1957 during the Cyprus Emergency. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton has received more than 186,228 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton is the 1,903rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,564th in 2019), the 4,553rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,125th in 2019) and the 112th most popular British Military Personnel.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Over the past year John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton has had the most page views in the with 21,071 views, followed by Italian (4,256), and Greek (3,121). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (565.60%), Italian (159.83%), and Egyptian Arabic (74.34%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton ranks 1,903 out of 2,058. Before him are Henry Wirz, Pierre Bosquet, Carl Gustav Fleischer, Moe Berg, Frank Buckles, and Anthony Wayne. After him are Heinrich Hax, Lewis Armistead, Juan de Salcedo, Nikolai Yevmenov, John Abizaid, and James Stockdale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton ranks 234. Before him are Horacio Muñoz, Marie Prevost, Rafael Garza Gutiérrez, Priscilla Dean, Ella Hall, and Rogers Hornsby. After him are Arthur Tell Schwab, Uberto De Morpurgo, Howard Hanson, Józef Kałuża, Simon Barere, and Okuro Oikawa. Among people deceased in 1989, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton ranks 257. Before him are Georgy Tovstonogov, M. King Hubbert, George Coulouris, Chris Gueffroy, C. L. R. James, and Edward Abbey. After him are Wally Ris, Hemanta Mukherjee, Jim Backus, Frank Henry, György Kulin, and Edvin Laine.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton ranks 4,553 out of 8,785. Before him are Kathleen Booth (1922), Dennis Poore (1916), Dave Edmunds (1944), James Herbert (1943), Susan Hampshire (1937), and Harry Blackstaffe (1868). After him are Jeremy Kemp (1935), Najla El Mangoush (1973), Daniel Levy (1962), James Wyatt (1746), Richard Briers (1934), and Walter de la Mare (1873).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton ranks 112. Before him are Albert Ball (1896), John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735), Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), Oliver Leese (1894), John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885), and John Dill (1881). After him are Guy Simonds (1903), Arnold Jackson (1891), George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800), Hubert Gough (1870), Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862), and Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792).

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