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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 510,868 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire is the 7,667th most popular politician (down from 7,447th in 2019), the 1,522nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,561st in 2019) and the 246th most popular British Politician.

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire has had the most page views in the with 64,268 views, followed by Russian (4,260), and Chinese (2,914). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Cornish (177.61%), Ido (140.42%), and Malagasy (135.37%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire ranks 7,667 out of 19,576. Before him are Nikolai Krylenko, William IV, Duke of Aquitaine, Sergio Pininfarina, Sanghamitta, Yusuf II, Almohad caliph, and Eliza Lynch. After him are Hasan Prishtina, Ibrahim Bey, Judith of Schweinfurt, Tsutomu Hata, Bidhya Devi Bhandari, and Charaton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire ranks 14. Before him are Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Emperor Sakuramachi, Heraclius II of Georgia, Charles Bonnet, Vilna Gaon, and Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Hyder Ali, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Johann Schobert, and Maximilian Hell. Among people deceased in 1764, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire ranks 12. Before him are Pietro Locatelli, Johann Mattheson, Jean-Marie Leclair, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Erik Pontoppidan, and Francesco Algarotti. After him are Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Picander, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Semyon Chelyuskin, Hans Adolph Brorson, and Nathaniel Bliss.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire ranks 1,522 out of 8,785. Before him are William Parry (1790), Henry Gray (1827), Robert Powell (1944), Oswald of Northumbria (604), Rosamund Pike (1979), and Trevor Horn (1949). After him are John Martin (1789), Margaret Burbidge (1919), Roger Williamson (1948), George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608), Jack Phillips (1887), and Algernon Blackwood (1869).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire ranks 246. Before him are Arthur Phillip (1738), Henry Pelham (1694), Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373), John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504), Edward the Exile (1016), and William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708). After him are George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608), Beorhtric of Wessex (800), Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840), Lord William Bentinck (1774), Gytha of Wessex (1053), and William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738).

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