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William Huskisson

1770 - 1830

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William Huskisson (11 March 1770 – 15 September 1830) was a British statesman, financier, and Member of Parliament for several constituencies, including Liverpool. He is commonly known as the world's first widely reported railway passenger casualty as he was run over and fatally injured by Robert Stephenson's pioneering locomotive Rocket (however, the first railway casualty had happened 9 years earlier). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Huskisson has received more than 361,005 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Huskisson is the 14,433rd most popular politician (down from 13,412th in 2019), the 3,550th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,389th in 2019) and the 475th most popular British Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.03

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Huskisson ranks 14,433 out of 19,576. Before him are Alphonse Alley, Raila Odinga, David Padilla, José Graziano da Silva, William M. Evarts, and Mustafa Al-Kadhimi. After him are Samuel Dexter, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Tommy Burns, Lothar Metz, Giuseppe Lepori, and Ernst Wetter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, William Huskisson ranks 38. Before him are Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Georges Mouton, Princess Louise of Orange-Nassau, and William Clark. After him are Albrecht Berblinger, Zaman Shah Durrani, Thomas Phillips, William Nicol, James Hogg, and David Thompson. Among people deceased in 1830, William Huskisson ranks 31. Before him are Marcos Portugal, William Hazlitt, Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg, Jan Śniadecki, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, and José de la Mar. After him are József Katona, Károly Kisfaludy, and Carl Fredrik Fallén.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Huskisson ranks 3,550 out of 8,785. Before him are Samson of Dol (490), John Belchier (1706), Gerald Moore (1899), David Morrissey (1964), Peter Withe (1951), and David Wilkie (1785). After him are John Richardson (1787), Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Roy Jenkins (1920), Catherine McCormack (1972), Gary Numan (1958), and Thomas Morley (1557).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Huskisson ranks 475. Before him are Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845), John Julius Norwich (1929), Ken Livingstone (1945), Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), and Hywel Dda (880). After him are Roy Jenkins (1920), Stafford Cripps (1889), Jack Straw (1946), Robin Cook (1946), John Taylor (1808), and John Smith (1938).

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