POLITICIAN

Stafford Cripps

1889 - 1952

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Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat. A wealthy lawyer by background, Cripps first entered Parliament at a by-election in January 1931, and was one of a handful of Labour frontbenchers to retain his seat at the October general election that year. He became a leading spokesman for the left-wing and for co-operation in a Popular Front with Communists before 1939, in which year the Labour Party expelled him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stafford Cripps has received more than 609,075 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Stafford Cripps is the 14,484th most popular politician (down from 13,910th in 2019), the 3,571st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,686th in 2019) and the 477th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Stafford Cripps ranks 14,484 out of 19,576. Before him are Oscar Temaru, Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald, Eleanor of Normandy, Ventidius Cumanus, Borislav Paravac, and Hélène Prévost. After him are Tiberius Claudius Balbilus, Abel P. Upshur, Baltasar Brum, Felix Lichnowsky, Rudolf Scharping, and Luis Alberto Monge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Stafford Cripps ranks 226. Before him are Giovanni Micheletto, James L. Peters, Arnulf Øverland, Ted Wilde, Fanny Durack, and Walter Catlett. After him are Carl O. Sauer, Dietrich Kraiss, K. B. Hedgewar, Carl Folcker, Balthasar van der Pol, and Sven Markelius. Among people deceased in 1952, Stafford Cripps ranks 135. Before him are Guido Castelnuovo, Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Juan Bautista Pérez, Roger Vitrac, Hans von Rosen, and James L. Peters. After him are Richard Johansson, Frederic G. Kenyon, Louis Wirth, Ronald Rawson, Curly Howard, and Gregory La Cava.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stafford Cripps ranks 3,571 out of 8,785. Before him are Dorothy Holman (1883), Susan Blackmore (1951), John Castle (1940), Solomon (1902), Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760), and Tony Kaye (1945). After him are Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), Richard Burns (1971), Anthony Head (1954), Henry of Huntingdon (1080), Jonathan Coe (1961), and Miriam Rothschild (1908).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Stafford Cripps ranks 477. Before him are Ken Livingstone (1945), Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), Hywel Dda (880), William Huskisson (1770), and Roy Jenkins (1920). After him are Jack Straw (1946), Robin Cook (1946), John Taylor (1808), John Smith (1938), William Davies Evans (1790), and Tony Benn (1925).

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