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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 342,399 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Richard Cobden is the 12,876th most popular politician (down from 12,787th in 2019), the 3,118th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,565th in 2019) and the 443rd most popular British Politician.

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  • 2.86

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Cobden ranks 12,876 out of 15,577. Before him are Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Věra Jourová, Murtala Mohammed, Polymestor, Andrew Cuomo, and Juan Antonio Ríos. After him are Ivan Capelli, Edward I, Count of Bar, Nicolas Hulot, Olaf Guthfrithson, Andrey Toshev, and Geoffrey IV, Count of Anjou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Richard Cobden ranks 55. Before him are Jules Janin, Alvan Clark, Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Franz Meyen, and Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold. After him are Salomon Müller, Julius Benedict, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, Wilhelm Bendz, Johan Nicolai Madvig, and Fruto Chamorro. Among people deceased in 1865, Richard Cobden ranks 56. Before him are Achille Valenciennes, Otto Ludwig, Nicholas Wiseman, Antonios Kriezis, Lewis Powell, and Kitsos Tzavelas. After him are Philippe Buchez, Samuel Cunard, Stephen Allen Benson, Isabella Beeton, Marie-Anne Libert, and Miklós Jósika.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Cobden ranks 3,118 out of 7,765. Before him are George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718), Janet Baker (1933), Jason Bonham (1966), David Dunbar Buick (1854), David Sylvian (1958), and Steve Bloomer (1874). After him are Verney Lovett Cameron (1844), Joe Jackson (1954), John Houlding (1833), Clements Markham (1830), Christiane Amanpour (1958), and Jonathan Nolan (1976).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Richard Cobden ranks 443. Before him are Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough (1681), Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593), Herbert Lawford (1851), Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858), Ruth Williams Khama (1923), and Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter (1430). After him are Stephen Gardiner (1497), Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724), Tommy Douglas (1904), Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779), Hywel Dda (880), and William Davies Evans (1790).

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