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Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington

1673 - 1743

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Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673 – 2 July 1743) was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death in 1743. He sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1698 and 1728, and was then raised to the peerage and sat in the House of Lords. He served as the prime minister of Great Britain from 1742 until his death in 1743. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington has received more than 488,628 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington is the 7,256th most popular politician (up from 8,392nd in 2019), the 1,426th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,770th in 2019) and the 236th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington ranks 7,256 out of 19,576. Before him are Edmund Veesenmayer, Bess Truman, Ma'ruf Amin, Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Jan Tarnowski, and Humberto Delgado. After him are Tullia Minor, Dwight F. Davis, Lucjan Żeligowski, Philippe de Gaulle, Max Koegel, and Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1673, Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington ranks 11. Before him are Rosalba Carriera, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon, Alessandro Marcello, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin, and Jacques-Martin Hotteterre. After him are Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Violante Beatrice of Bavaria, Johann Conrad Dippel, Mirwais Hotak, Claude Gillot, and René Duguay-Trouin. Among people deceased in 1743, Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington ranks 7. Before him are Hyacinthe Rigaud, André-Hercule de Fleury, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Anne Sophie Reventlow, and Nicolas Lancret. After him are Rafael Casanova, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz, Jai Singh II, and Augustine Washington.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington ranks 1,426 out of 8,785. Before him are John William Godward (1861), Julia Ormond (1965), Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721), Sophie Turner (1996), Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799), and Richard J. Roberts (1943). After him are Ethel Smyth (1858), Alan Baker (1939), Alison Steadman (1946), Rhys Ifans (1967), Evelyn De Morgan (1855), and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington ranks 236. Before him are John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (1384), John Bowring (1792), Herbert Pitman (1877), Constantine II of Scotland (801), Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721), and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799). After him are Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944), Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Arthur Phillip (1738), Henry Pelham (1694), and Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373).

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