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William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford

1768 - 1854

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William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, (; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was a British army officer and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in the First Wellington ministry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford has received more than 217,711 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford is the 11,613th most popular politician (down from 10,108th in 2019), the 2,431st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,168th in 2019) and the 361st most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 11,613 out of 19,576. Before him are Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Prince Adolf of Auersperg, Ansgarde of Burgundy, José María Iglesias, Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, and Pat Cox. After him are Vilhelm Buhl, Yolande of Aragon, Duchess of Calabria, Boiorix, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Hermann Muhs, and Adelaide, Countess of Burgundy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 31. Before him are Dolley Madison, Kaʻahumanu, Elizabeth Monroe, Zacharias Werner, Johann Michael Vogl, and Maria Wirtemberska. After him are Jacques Lauriston, Jędrzej Śniadecki, Agustín Eyzaguirre, Maria Edgeworth, Anthony Carlisle, and Karl Ludwig von Haller. Among people deceased in 1854, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 34. Before him are Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Arthur Aikin, Simón Rodríguez, Maria Wirtemberska, Henriette Sontag, and José Joaquín de Herrera. After him are Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Macedonio Melloni, Józef Chłopicki, Joaquina Vedruna de Mas, Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, and Caroline of Hesse-Homburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 2,431 out of 8,785. Before him are Edwin Lutyens (1869), Richard Cobden (1804), William Hope Hodgson (1877), Pete Burns (1959), Charles Lamb (1775), and Terence Davies (1945). After him are Philip Catherine (1942), Richard Bremmer (1953), Arthur Wynne (1871), Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478), Thomas Wright (1711), and Eddie Clarke (1950).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 361. Before him are Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (1891), Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (1886), Frederick Abberline (1843), Martin Rees (1942), Cædwalla of Wessex (659), and Richard Cobden (1804). After him are Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478), Ian Khama (1953), Charles James Fox (1749), Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891), Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583), and William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (1724).

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