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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 148,670 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst is the 9,405th most popular politician (up from 10,309th in 2019), the 1,997th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,366th in 2019) and the 314th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 9,405 out of 15,577Before him are Étienne de Silhouette, Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, Ismail al-Azhari, George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Karel Kramář, and Jin of Xia. After him are Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Cleomenes of Naucratis, Polydorus of Sparta, Amanishakheto, and Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 24Before him are Robert Surcouf, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Tokugawa Ienari, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, and Étienne Maurice Gérard. After him are Ioannis Kolettis, Sally Hemings, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Jakob Friedrich Fries, Josef Jungmann, and Henrik Steffens. Among people deceased in 1857, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 35Before him are Christian Daniel Rauch, Vasily Tropinin, William Brown, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Agustina de Aragón, and Frederick Scott Archer. After him are Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Manuel Oribe, Daniele Manin, Wei Yuan, Johann Georg Hiedler, and Abe Masahiro.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 1,997 out of 7,765Before him are John Needham (1713), William Hartnell (1908), John Michell (1724), John Bagot Glubb (1897), Dudley Moore (1935), and John Sulston (1942). After him are Herbert Read (1893), Graham Bonnet (1947), Jeanette (1951), George Frederic Watts (1817), Mary Hopkin (1950), and Samuel Baker (1821).

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