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Alexander McDonnell

1798 - 1835

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Alexander McDonnell (1798–1835), sometimes spelled MacDonnell, was an Irish chess master, who contested a series of six matches with the world's leading chess player Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais in 1834. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander McDonnell is the 45th most popular chess player (up from 118th in 2019), the 1,620th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,372nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alexander McDonnell ranks 45 out of 461. Before him are Bent Larsen, Vlastimil Hort, Borislav Ivkov, Robert Hübner, Lyudmila Rudenko, and Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona. After him are Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Jan Timman, László Szabó, Olga Rubtsova, Nigel Short, and Gioachino Greco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Alexander McDonnell ranks 17. Before him are František Palacký, Mpande kaSenzangakhona, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Alexander Gorchakov, Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, and Franz Ernst Neumann. After him are Thomas Hodgkin, Archduchess Clementina of Austria, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Dionysios Solomos, Jules Armand Dufaure, and Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Among people deceased in 1835, Alexander McDonnell ranks 10. Before him are Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, Antoine-Jean Gros, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Thérésa Tallien, Catharina of Württemberg, and Izabela Czartoryska. After him are Guillaume Dupuytren, John Nash, François Étienne de Kellermann, August von Platen-Hallermünde, Friedrich Stromeyer, and John Marshall.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander McDonnell ranks 1,620 out of 8,785. Before him are James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612), Edward Waring (1736), David Byron (1947), Ellie Goulding (1986), Harold Lowe (1882), and Betty Boothroyd (1929). After him are Stephen Fry (1957), Marina Berti (1924), Iain Glen (1961), Ted Hughes (1930), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), and Neville Marriner (1924).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Alexander McDonnell ranks 2. Before him are Howard Staunton (1810). After him are Nigel Short (1965), Henry Bird (1830), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Michael Adams (1971), Fred Yates (1884), Horatio Caro (1862), Amos Burn (1848), Jonathan Penrose (1933), John Owen (1827), and John Nunn (1955).

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