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William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst

1773 - 1857

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William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (14 January 1773 – 13 March 1857) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst has received more than 163,698 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst is the 10,739th most popular politician (down from 9,378th in 2019), the 2,219th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,992nd in 2019) and the 334th most popular British Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 10,739 out of 19,576. Before him are Mirza Kuchik Khan, Bebiankh, Jin of Xia, I. K. Gujral, Andrés Pastrana Arango, and Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. After him are Antigone of Epirus, Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles, Piet Joubert, Lucius Caecilius Metellus, William VI, Duke of Aquitaine, and Svetlana Medvedeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 34. Before him are Jakob Friedrich Fries, Josef Jungmann, Yuri Lisyansky, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Sally Hemings, and Frédéric Cuvier. After him are Henrik Steffens, Joseph de Villèle, Lodewijk van Heiden, Arthur Aikin, Jacob Aall, and Agostino Bassi. Among people deceased in 1857, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 39. Before him are Christian Daniel Rauch, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, William Brown, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Agustina de Aragón, and Johann Jakob Heckel. After him are Carl Ludwig Koch, Johann Georg Hiedler, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Abe Masahiro, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, and Wei Yuan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 2,219 out of 8,785. Before him are Prince Henri of Orléans (1867), Cuthbert (635), Alan Sillitoe (1928), Charles Wesley (1707), Edith Tolkien (1889), and Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (1863). After him are Steve McManaman (1972), Roger Hunt (1938), Hamnet Shakespeare (1585), Frank Bridge (1879), Richard Wilson (1714), and Joseph Fiennes (1970).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 334. Before him are Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874), Henry Percy (1364), Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), Joseph Lancaster (1778), and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924). After him are Gerry Adams (1948), Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455), Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872), Andrew Moray (1265), James Harrington (1611), and Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889).

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