MILITARY PERSONNEL

Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald

1775 - 1860

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Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Marquess of Maranhão (14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a British naval officer, politician and mercenary. Serving during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Royal Navy, his naval successes led Napoleon to nickname him le Loup des Mers (the Sea Wolf). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald has received more than 1,306,383 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald is the 1,026th most popular military personnel (down from 781st in 2019), the 1,763rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,448th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald ranks 1,026 out of 2,058. Before him are Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Presian, Walter Krupinski, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Clearchus of Sparta, and Semyon Kurkotkin. After him are Pavle Đurišić, François Joseph Westermann, Maximilian de Angelis, Mohamed Oufkir, Zdravko Tolimir, and Rasim Delić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald ranks 26. Before him are Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona, Bernhard Crusell, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Manuel García, Conrad Malte-Brun, and Antoni Radziwiłł. After him are Louisa Adams, Juan Martín Díez, Daniel O'Connell, Carlo Rossi, Stefan Bogoridi, and Charles Lamb. Among people deceased in 1860, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald ranks 23. Before him are Carl Ritter von Ghega, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Thomas Addison, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, and Ii Naosuke. After him are George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, James Braid, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, and Aleksey Khomyakov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald ranks 1,763 out of 8,785. Before him are Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215), John Flaxman (1755), Archibald Leitch (1865), Leonard Woolf (1880), Sigfrid of Sweden (1000), and Dorothy Shepherd-Barron (1897). After him are Peg Entwistle (1908), John Sulston (1942), Taliesin (518), Saint Alban (300), Amy Johnson (1903), and Rupert Sheldrake (1942).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald ranks 36. Before him are Henry Allingham (1896), Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717), John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852), Robert Blake (1599), Paddy Roy Bates (1921), and George Rooke (1650). After him are John Fastolf (1380), William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729), Horatio Gates (1727), FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), Arthur Percival (1887), and James Wolfe (1727).

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