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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 immensely popular throughout parts of Britain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland has received more than 1,025,209 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Prince William, Duke of Cumberland is the 5,893rd most popular politician (down from 5,181st in 2019), the 1,247th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,148th in 2019) and the 208th most popular British Politician.

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  • 57.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ranks 5,893 out of 15,577. Before him are Diego, Prince of Asturias, 'Adud al-Dawla, Apama, Jean-Yves Le Drian, Enomoto Takeaki, and Antiochus XII Dionysus. After him are Orestes of Macedon, Bo Xilai, Rothari, Kandalanu, Infanta Beatriz of Spain, and Emperor Ming of Jin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1721, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ranks 5. Before him are Madame de Pompadour, Bernardo Bellotto, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, and Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken. After him are Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, Tobias Smollett, Samuel von Brukenthal, and Johann Kirnberger. Among people deceased in 1765, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ranks 10. Before him are Philip, Duke of Parma, Muhammad bin Saud, Alexis Clairaut, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, and Charles-André van Loo. After him are Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Edward Young, Johann Melchior Molter, Mir Jafar, and Johan Agrell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ranks 1,247 out of 7,765. Before him are Catherine Eddowes (1842), Martin Frobisher (1535), Andy Whitfield (1971), Vera Lynn (1917), Scott Adkins (1976), and Leonard Woolley (1880). After him are Matthew Festing (1949), Henry Thomas Buckle (1821), Jethro Tull (1674), Horace Walpole (1717), John Entwistle (1944), and Gary Lineker (1960).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ranks 208. Before him are Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham (1670), Godwin, Earl of Wessex (1001), Domnall mac Ailpín (812), Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), and Alexander I of Scotland (1078). After him are Horace Walpole (1717), John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (1384), Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827), and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565).

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