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Prince William, Duke of Cumberland

1721 - 1765

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Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (15 April 1721 [N.S.] – 31 October 1765) was the third and youngest son of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach. He was Duke of Cumberland from 1726. He is best remembered for his role in putting down the Jacobite Rising at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, which made him popular in certain parts of Britain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland has received more than 1,106,384 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Prince William, Duke of Cumberland is the 7,219th most popular politician (down from 5,878th in 2019), the 1,422nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,243rd in 2019) and the 234th most popular British Politician.

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  • 56.74

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ranks 7,219 out of 19,576. Before him are Yuriy Yekhanurov, Theodore II Palaiologos, Ibzan, Álvaro Cunhal, Dhu Nuwas, and Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria. After him are Jonathan Apphus, Osorkon III, José Mendes Cabeçadas, Yevno Azef, John II, Duke of Lorraine, and Alejandro Toledo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1721, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ranks 10. Before him are Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Johann Kirnberger, and Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach. After him are Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, Samuel von Brukenthal, Tobias Smollett, Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Joseph de Guignes. Among people deceased in 1765, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ranks 12. Before him are Alexis Clairaut, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Charles-André van Loo, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, and Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Mir Jafar, Edward Young, Johan Agrell, Johann Melchior Molter, Carl Alexander Clerck, and Prokop Diviš.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ranks 1,422 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Redgrave (1908), Dan McCafferty (1946), Timothy Spall (1957), Richard Henderson (1945), John William Godward (1861), and Julia Ormond (1965). After him are Sophie Turner (1996), Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799), Richard J. Roberts (1943), Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673), Ethel Smyth (1858), and Alan Baker (1939).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ranks 234. Before him are Penda of Mercia (606), John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404), John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (1384), John Bowring (1792), Herbert Pitman (1877), and Constantine II of Scotland (801). After him are Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799), Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673), Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944), Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), and Arthur Phillip (1738).

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