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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 255,615 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Mountstuart Elphinstone is the 16,255th most popular politician (down from 12,991st in 2019), the 4,734th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,176th in 2019) and the 564th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mountstuart Elphinstone ranks 16,255 out of 19,576. Before him are Akwasi Afrifa, Jóannes Eidesgaard, Héctor Rossetto, Carlos Mota Pinto, Matthias Platzeck, and Chen Muhua. After him are Aleksandar Šapić, Roberto Gualtieri, José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno, Silke Möller, Benjamin Harrison V, and Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Mountstuart Elphinstone ranks 37. Before him are Washington Allston, José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle, Stephen Decatur, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Peter Mark Roget, and Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough. After him are Zebulon Pike, Benjamin Silliman, Joseph Story, and Samuel D. Ingham. Among people deceased in 1859, Mountstuart Elphinstone ranks 61. Before him are Juan Bautista Ceballos, David Cox, Thomas Nuttall, Sydney, Lady Morgan, Bakht Khan, and Leigh Hunt. After him are Richard Rush, Charles Hamilton Smith, and George M. Bibb.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mountstuart Elphinstone ranks 4,734 out of 8,785. Before him are Stephanie Beacham (1947), Thomas Clarkson (1760), Thomas Adès (1971), Trent Alexander-Arnold (1998), Alfie Allen (1986), and Walter Chaffe (1870). After him are Philip Hall (1904), William Cobbett (1763), Bob Gerard (1914), Henry Seebohm (1832), Peter Kemp (1878), and Terry McDermott (1951).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Mountstuart Elphinstone ranks 564. Before him are Hugh Gaitskell (1906), Douglas Hurd (1930), Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733), Joseph Cook (1860), John Hunter (1737), and George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716). After him are Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790), Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860), David Owen (1938), Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674), Nigel Lawson (1932), and Reginald McKenna (1863).

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