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William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne

1737 - 1805

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William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, (2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805; known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history), was an Anglo-Irish Whig statesman who was the first home secretary in 1782 and then prime minister in 1782-83 during the final months of the American War of Independence. He succeeded in securing peace with America and this feat remains his most notable legacy. Lord Shelburne was born in Dublin and spent his formative years in Ireland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne has received more than 503,001 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne is the 10,407th most popular politician (down from 8,902nd in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 102nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Irish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne ranks 10,407 out of 15,577. Before him are Muqtada al-Sadr, Dirk Stikker, Ricardo Martinelli, Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway, Automedon, and Nayib Bukele. After him are Llywelyn the Great, Jānis Rudzutaks, Rosen Plevneliev, Johannes Dieckmann, Joseph Serchuk, and Rusa III.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne ranks 24. Before him are George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Maria Caterina Brignole, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Suzanne Curchod. After him are Alexander Dalrymple, Charlotte de Rohan, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Vasily Bazhenov, Morten Thrane Brünnich, and John Hunter. Among people deceased in 1805, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne ranks 18. Before him are Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, William Paley, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Conrad Moench, and Pehr Osbeck. After him are Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Thomas Wedgwood, and John Robison.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne ranks 125 out of 501. Before him are Cornelius Ryan (1920), Liam Cunningham (1961), Peter Brown (1935), John Millington Synge (1871), Andrew Graham (1815), and Dan O'Herlihy (1919). After him are Roy Keane (1971), Charles Villiers Stanford (1852), Arthur Griffith (1871), John Boland (1870), Douglas Hyde (1860), and Cecil Day-Lewis (1904).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne ranks 22. Before him are Constantine III of Scotland (971), Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760), Edward Bruce (1275), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), and Daniel O'Connell (1775). After him are Arthur Griffith (1871), John Boland (1870), Douglas Hyde (1860), Pat Cox (1952), Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785), and Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880).

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