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Mountstuart Elphinstone

1779 - 1859

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Mountstuart Elphinstone (6 October 1779 – 20 November 1859) was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. He later became the Governor of Bombay (now Mumbai) where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions accessible to the Indian population. Besides being a noted administrator, he wrote books on India and Afghanistan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mountstuart Elphinstone has received more than 236,239 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mountstuart Elphinstone is the 13,036th most popular politician (up from 14,263rd in 2019), the 3,184th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,725th in 2019) and the 447th most popular British Politician.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.80

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  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mountstuart Elphinstone ranks 13,036 out of 15,577. Before him are Naplanum, Milan Neralić, Germán Riesco, Brent Scowcroft, Thrasymedes, and Mpande kaSenzangakhona. After him are Mut-Ashkur, Gustaf Åkerhielm, Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene, Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Vsevolod of Pskov, and Joe Lieberman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Mountstuart Elphinstone ranks 29. Before him are Francis Scott Key, Filippo Paulucci, Johann Schweigger, Ali-Morad Khan Zand, Tabitha Babbitt, and Augustin Saint-Hilaire. After him are Washington Allston, Louis de Freycinet, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Peter Mark Roget, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, and Stephen Decatur. Among people deceased in 1859, Mountstuart Elphinstone ranks 46. Before him are John Walker, José de Madrazo y Agudo, Horace Mann, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Thaddeus Bulgarin, and Ye Mingchen. After him are Heinrich Zollinger, Joseph Diez Gergonne, José Miguel de Velasco Franco, Thomas Horsfield, Mirabeau B. Lamar, and Thomas Nuttall.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mountstuart Elphinstone ranks 3,184 out of 7,765. Before him are Henry Travers (1874), Barry Flanagan (1941), Edward Blore (1787), Gary Numan (1958), Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694), and Thomas Middleton (1580). After him are Neil Aspinall (1941), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), Swithun (800), Stephen Baxter (1957), George Abecassis (1913), and James Nesbitt (1965).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Mountstuart Elphinstone ranks 447. Before him are Ruth Williams Khama (1923), Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter (1430), Richard Cobden (1804), Stephen Gardiner (1497), Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724), and Tommy Douglas (1904). After him are Hywel Dda (880), William Davies Evans (1790), Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790), Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney (1075), Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778), and Gayatri Devi (1919).

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