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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 a 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 797,063 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh is the 7,470th most popular politician (up from 7,621st in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Ireland (up from 87th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Irish Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 7,470 out of 15,577. Before him are Adama Barrow, Carmen Pereira, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria, and Namhae of Silla. After him are Constantin Sănătescu, Adela of France, Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, Bogdan I of Moldavia, Arioald, and Feroze Gandhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 18. Before him are William Smith, Thomas Lawrence, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Józef Elsner, and Ernst Moritz Arndt. After him are Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Lotf Ali Khan, Aleksey Arakcheyev, François Séverin Marceau, Ignacio Allende, and Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1822, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 19. Before him are René Just Haüy, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Karl August von Hardenberg, Jean-Robert Argand, Sophie de Condorcet, and Platon Zubov. After him are Cheung Po Tsai, Dmitry Levitzky, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Bathilde d'Orléans, Slimane of Morocco, and Duke Eugen of Württemberg.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 81 out of 501. Before him are Vergilius of Salzburg (700), Charles Maturin (1780), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845), Maureen O'Sullivan (1911), and James Hoban (1762). After him are Neil Jordan (1950), Kevin Roche (1922), Fionnula Flanagan (1941), Peter Lacy (1678), Saint Kilian (640), and Brenda Fricker (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 14. Before him are Causantín mac Cináeda (836), Harald Gille (1103), Malcolm II of Scotland (954), Brian Cowen (1960), Brian Boru (941), and Mary Robinson (1944). After him are Eliza Lynch (1833), Constantine III of Scotland (971), Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760), Edward Bruce (1275), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), and Charles Stewart Parnell (1846).

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