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William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

1720 - 1764

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William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, (8 May 1720 – 2 October 1764), styled Lord Cavendish before 1729, and Marquess of Hartington between 1729 and 1755, was a British Whig statesman and nobleman who was briefly nominal Prime Minister of Great Britain. He was the first son of William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire and his wife, Catherine Hoskins. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire has received more than 462,197 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire is the 7,556th most popular politician (down from 5,643rd in 2019), the 1,566th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,236th in 2019) and the 253rd most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire ranks 7,556 out of 15,577. Before him are Cesare Mori, Zhang Wentian, Moza bint Nasser, Adama Barrow, Carmen Pereira, and George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen. After him are Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria, Namhae of Silla, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Constantin Sănătescu, Adela of France, and Emperor Xuanzong of Jin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire ranks 16. Before him are Vilna Gaon, Charles Bonnet, Heraclius II of Georgia, Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, and Hyder Ali. After him are Maximilian Hell, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Johann Schobert, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, and Balaji Baji Rao. Among people deceased in 1764, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire ranks 12. Before him are Pietro Locatelli, Jean-Marie Leclair, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Johann Mattheson, Erik Pontoppidan, and Francesco Algarotti. After him are Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Semyon Chelyuskin, Nathaniel Bliss, Picander, and Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire ranks 1,566 out of 7,765. Before him are Hertha Ayrton (1854), Margaret Burbidge (1919), Olaf Stapledon (1886), John Smyth (1570), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), and William Auld (1924). After him are John Muir (1838), David Coulthard (1971), Frances Shand Kydd (1936), Margaret Douglas (1515), William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708), and John Barbirolli (1899).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire ranks 253. Before him are George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608), Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886), James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1531), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Glenda Jackson (1936), and George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784). After him are Margaret Douglas (1515), William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708), Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455), Rædwald of East Anglia (550), Joe Davis (1901), and George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737).

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