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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh

1769 - 1822

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Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822), usually known as Lord Castlereagh, derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh (UK: KAH-səl-ray) by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was an Irish-born British statesman and politician. As secretary to the Viceroy in Ireland, he worked to suppress the Rebellion of 1798 and to secure passage in 1800 of the Irish Act of Union. As the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1812, he was central to the management of the coalition that defeated Napoleon, and was British plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh has received more than 861,965 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh is the 7,988th most popular politician (down from 7,450th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 80th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Irish Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 7,988 out of 19,576. Before him are Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Gjorge Ivanov, Bogud, Elisabeth Hevelius, Ashot II of Armenia, and John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset. After him are Zhang Wentian, Zawisza Czarny, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Lembitu, Samak Sundaravej, and Princess Caroline of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 18. Before him are Thomas Lawrence, Ivan Kotliarevsky, William Smith, Józef Elsner, Ernst Moritz Arndt, and Lotf Ali Khan. After him are Aleksey Arakcheyev, Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, François Séverin Marceau, and Isaac Brock. Among people deceased in 1822, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 18. Before him are René Just Haüy, Valentin Haüy, Karl August von Hardenberg, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Jean-Robert Argand, and Sophie de Condorcet. After him are Slimane of Morocco, Bathilde d'Orléans, Platon Zubov, Dmitry Levitzky, Józef Wybicki, and Kristjan Jaak Peterson.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 86 out of 549. Before him are Fionnula Flanagan (1941), Conor McGregor (1988), George Johnstone Stoney (1826), Maureen O'Sullivan (1911), Eliza Lynch (1833), and Andrew Graham (1815). After him are Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Saint Kilian (640), Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845), Kevin Roche (1922), Liam Cunningham (1961), and Patrick Pearse (1879).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 15. Before him are Brian Cowen (1960), Mary Robinson (1944), Brian Boru (941), Edmund the Martyr (841), Malcolm II of Scotland (954), and Eliza Lynch (1833). After him are Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785), Arthur Griffith (1871), Constantine III of Scotland (971), John Boland (1870), Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760), and Douglas Hyde (1860).

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