POLITICIAN

Robert Moray

1609 - 1673

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Sir Robert Moray (alternative spellings: Murrey, Murray) FRS (1608 or 1609 – 4 July 1673) was a Scottish soldier, statesman, diplomat, judge, spy, and natural philosopher. He was well known to Charles I and Charles II, and to the French cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin. He attended the meeting of the 1660 committee of 12 on 28 November 1660 that led to the formation of the Royal Society, and was influential in gaining its Royal Charter and formulating its statutes and regulations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Moray has received more than 71,982 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Moray is the 15,897th most popular politician, the 4,456th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 537th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert Moray ranks 15,897 out of 19,576Before him are Louis Eugène Roy, Gaston Browne, Mariann Fischer Boel, Sergey Kozlov, Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, and Ana Palacio. After him are Hilla Limann, Paul-Émile de Souza, Klaus Schütz, Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, Pierre Joxe, and Sigurd Ibsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1609, Robert Moray ranks 21Before him are Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Paul Fleming, Jean Rotrou, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, and Gerrard Winstanley. After him is John Suckling. Among people deceased in 1673, Robert Moray ranks 12Before him are Semyon Dezhnev, Joan Blaeu, Regnier de Graaf, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, and Barent Fabritius.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Moray ranks 4,456 out of 8,785Before him are Ove Arup (1895), Cecilia Colledge (1920), Joe Orton (1933), Betty Nuthall (1911), Anna Popplewell (1988), and Mark Blundell (1966). After him are James Quibell (1867), Frederick Rolfe (1860), Jesse Lingard (1992), Alice Eve (1982), Martin Wolf (1946), and George Coulouris (1903).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Robert Moray ranks 537Before him are John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth (1751), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801), Leander Starr Jameson (1853), Keir Hardie (1856), John Prescott (1938), and George Reid (1845). After him are George Galloway (1954), Ruth Williams Khama (1923), Michael Portillo (1953), Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (1951), John Francis Davis (1795), and Aneurin Bevan (1897).