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Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading

1860 - 1935

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Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, (10 October 1860 – 30 December 1935), known as the Earl of Reading from 1917 to 1926, was a British Liberal politician and judge, who served as Lord Chief Justice of England, Viceroy of India, and Foreign Secretary, the last Liberal to hold that post. The second practising Jew to be a member of the British cabinet (the first being Herbert Samuel, who was also a member of H. H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading has received more than 347,784 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading is the 16,274th most popular politician (down from 14,882nd in 2019), the 4,752nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,373rd in 2019) and the 566th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading ranks 16,274 out of 19,576Before him are Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, Charles Pahud de Mortanges, Benoît Hamon, Herbert H. Lehman, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, and Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough. After him are Luis Alberto Riart, William H. McRaven, Muhammad Sakizli, Osred II of Northumbria, Mary Harrison McKee, and C. J. Hambro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading ranks 137Before him are Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Emily Hobhouse, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, Chandramukhi Basu, Joseph Cook, and Daniel Barringer. After him are John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, Leonard Wood, Ekaterina Karavelova, James Neill, Gregorio Aglipay, and Charles Oman. Among people deceased in 1935, Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading ranks 137Before him are Aimé Haegeman, Jón Þorláksson, Nikodem Caro, James Quibell, Bernhard Britz, and José Sánchez-Guerra y Martínez. After him are Patricio Arabolaza, Charles Kingsford Smith, Paolo Orsi, Silverio Izaguirre, Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, and Junior Durkin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading ranks 4,752 out of 8,785Before him are George Rodger (1908), Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790), John Pond (1767), Steve Ovett (1955), John Gray (1948), and A. H. M. Jones (1904). After him are Fred Davis (1913), Kieran Trippier (1990), David Owen (1938), Dave Gibbons (1949), Nicollette Sheridan (1963), and Mina Loy (1882).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading ranks 566Before him are Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733), Joseph Cook (1860), John Hunter (1737), George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716), Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779), and Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790). After him are David Owen (1938), Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674), Nigel Lawson (1932), Reginald McKenna (1863), Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785), and John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811).