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William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford

1768 - 1854

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General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, (; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was an Anglo-Irish soldier 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 200,222 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford is the 10,136th most popular politician, the 2,174th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 337th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 10,136 out of 15,577Before him are Garibald, Ramón Castillo, Yaakov Dori, Eurysthenes, Qu Qiubai, and Rum Mehmed Pasha. After him are Semenkare Nebnuni, Ichirō Ozawa, Neagoe Basarab, Alcmenes, Quintus Lutatius Catulus, and Birger Brosa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 24Before him are Peter Wittgenstein, Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Joseph Anton Koch, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, and Infanta Mariana Victoria of Portugal. After him are Jean-Baptiste Debret, Jacques Lauriston, Kaʻahumanu, Dolley Madison, Zacharias Werner, and Elizabeth Monroe. Among people deceased in 1854, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 25Before him are Nicolás Bravo, Émilie de Villeneuve, Jeremias Gotthelf, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Samuel Wilson, and Abdullah Abdul Kadir. After him are Simón Rodríguez, Silvio Pellico, Vatroslav Lisinski, Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, Joaquina Vedruna de Mas, and Jean Coralli.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 2,174 out of 7,765Before him are John Glen (1932), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), Ruth Belville (1854), Shane MacGowan (1957), Christine McVie (1943), and Reginald Doherty (1872). After him are Joseph Larmor (1857), Norman McLaren (1914), Lewis Gilbert (1920), Edward Cave (1691), John Ford (1586), and Nassau William Senior (1790).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 337Before him are Eadgifu of Wessex (null), Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1182), Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1517), Andrew Moray (1265), F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782), and Ruth Belville (1854). After him are Ian Khama (1953), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), David Trimble (1944), John Owen (1616), Phil Taylor (1960), and Prasutagus (50).