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William Hamilton

1730 - 1803

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Sir William Hamilton, KB, PC, FRS, FRSE (13 December 1730 – 6 April 1803) was a British diplomat, politician, antiquarian and vulcanologist who served as the Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of Naples from 1764 to 1800. After sitting in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1761 to 1764, he began working as a diplomat, succeeding Sir James Gray as the British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples. While in Italy, Hamilton became involved in studying local volcanoes and collecting antiquities, becoming a fellow of the Royal Society and being given the Copley Medal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hamilton has received more than 74,625 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). William Hamilton is the 8,381st most popular politician (down from 8,061st in 2019), the 1,660th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,689th in 2019) and the 258th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Hamilton ranks 8,381 out of 19,576. Before him are Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus, Margaret Bondfield, Mehmed Orhan, Emperor Xiaowu of Jin, Helena Kantakouzene, and Hannibal Mago. After him are Sanna Marin, Sengge Rinchen, King An of Zhou, Amir Kabir, Mulatu Teshome, and Srinagarindra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, William Hamilton ranks 14. Before him are Josiah Wedgwood, Antonio Sacchini, James Bruce, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, Velu Nachiyar, and Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. After him are Motoori Norinaga, Johann Hedwig, Pieter Boddaert, Otto Friedrich Müller, Augustin Pajou, and Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham. Among people deceased in 1803, William Hamilton ranks 20. Before him are Samuel Adams, Kirill Razumovski, Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, Samuel von Brukenthal, and François Devienne. After him are Gottfried van Swieten, Anders Chydenius, Nicolas Baudin, Arthur Guinness, Jean-François de La Harpe, and Sylvain Maréchal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Hamilton ranks 1,660 out of 8,785. Before him are E. P. Thompson (1924), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Eileen Atkins (1934), David Ogilvy (1911), Margaret Bondfield (1873), and Jethro Tull (1674). After him are Greer Garson (1904), Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886), John Latham (1740), Gemma Jones (1942), Thomas Rowlandson (1756), and Dixie Dean (1907).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Hamilton ranks 258. Before him are William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738), Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693), Jeffrey Archer (1940), Princess Mary of Great Britain (1723), George Grenville (1712), and Margaret Bondfield (1873). After him are Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886), David Trimble (1944), Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783), Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766), Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1477), and Lulach (1030).

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