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William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong

1810 - 1900

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William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong has received more than 562,876 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong is the 282nd most popular engineer (down from 270th in 2019), the 3,787th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,647th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 282 out of 323. Before him are Eilmer of Malmesbury, Alan Shugart, Mikhail Tikhonravov, Arthur E. Kennelly, Hideo Itokawa, and Geoffrey de Havilland. After him are Frances Spence, Jesse Ramsden, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Yuri Artsutanov, Boris Lisunov, and Friedrich L. Bauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 77. Before him are Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, Baron Ignaz von Plener, Edward Blyth, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Nicolae Golescu, and Little Crow. After him are Carl Mayet, Alphonso Taft, Ernestine Rose, Jeremiah S. Black, Julián Castro, and Louis Fraser. Among people deceased in 1900, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 74. Before him are Wilhelm Kühne, Gustav Hartlaub, Adrien René Franchet, Victoire Léodile Béra, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, and Charles Piazzi Smyth. After him are John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Nicolae Crețulescu, Ali Shah Durrani, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Tomás Gomensoro Albín, and Ernest Dowson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 3,787 out of 7,765. Before him are Simon Wright (1963), Wallace Ford (1898), Jack Taylor (1930), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), John Eliot (1604), and Martin O'Neill (1952). After him are Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696), Timothy West (1934), Steven Moffat (1961), Sadie Frost (1965), George Holyoake (1817), and Cadwallon ap Cadfan (591).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 28. Before him are Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), William Froude (1810), Mal Evans (1935), Robert W. Paul (1869), James B. Francis (1815), and Geoffrey de Havilland (1882). After him are Jesse Ramsden (1735), Isaac Roberts (1829), R. J. Mitchell (1895), Christopher Cockerell (1910), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), and Ove Arup (1895).

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