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Richard Cobden

1804 - 1865

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Richard Cobden (3 June 1804 – 2 April 1865) was an English Radical and Liberal politician, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace. He was associated with the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty. As a young man, Cobden was a successful commercial traveller who became co-owner of a highly profitable calico printing factory in Sabden but lived in Manchester, a city with which he would become strongly identified. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Cobden has received more than 364,480 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Richard Cobden is the 11,582nd most popular politician (up from 12,831st in 2019), the 2,426th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,110th in 2019) and the 360th most popular British Politician.

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  • 21

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  • 4.50

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  • 2.86

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Cobden ranks 11,582 out of 19,576. Before him are Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, Friedrich Dickel, Hasdrubal the Boetharch, Askold and Dir, and Oshin, King of Armenia. After him are Huang Hua, Turar Ryskulov, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Sergey Lebedev, Anna van Egmont, and Ulric Manfred II of Turin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Richard Cobden ranks 51. Before him are Pierre François Verhulst, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Mariana Pineda, Jules Dupuit, Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen, and Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Alvan Clark, Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, Jules Janin, Franz Meyen, Gheorghe Bibescu, and Salomon Müller. Among people deceased in 1865, Richard Cobden ranks 49. Before him are Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Evangelos Zappas, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, and Alexander Dukhnovych. After him are Joseph Lebeau, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Antonios Kriezis, Achille Valenciennes, Philippe Buchez, and Mary Surratt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Cobden ranks 2,426 out of 8,785. Before him are Cædwalla of Wessex (659), Terry-Thomas (1911), Alfred Fowler (1868), Leslie Phillips (1924), Delroy Lindo (1952), and Edwin Lutyens (1869). After him are William Hope Hodgson (1877), Pete Burns (1959), Charles Lamb (1775), Terence Davies (1945), William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768), and Philip Catherine (1942).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Richard Cobden ranks 360. Before him are Eystein II of Norway (1125), Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (1891), Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (1886), Frederick Abberline (1843), Martin Rees (1942), and Cædwalla of Wessex (659). After him are William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768), Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478), Ian Khama (1953), Charles James Fox (1749), Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891), and Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583).

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