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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

1769 - 1852

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Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was a British Army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, twice serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was one of the British commanders who ended the Anglo-Mysore wars by defeating Tipu Sultan in 1799 and among those who ended the Napoleonic Wars in a Coalition victory when the Seventh Coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Wellesley was born into a Protestant Ascendancy family in Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland. He was commissioned as an ensign in the British Army in 1787, serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive lords lieutenant of Ireland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington is the 1,216th most popular politician (down from 633rd in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Ireland (down from 10th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Politician.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, is most famous for defeating Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Waterloo.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ranks 1,216 out of 19,576. Before him are Andromache, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Kurt von Schleicher, Władysław III of Poland, Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, and Dost Mohammad Khan. After him are Wilm Hosenfeld, Christian I of Denmark, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Andrei Gromyko, Helmut Schmidt, and 5th Dalai Lama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ranks 6. Before him are Napoleon, Alexander von Humboldt, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Georges Cuvier, and Michel Ney. After him are Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Jean Lannes, Ivan Krylov, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, André-Jacques Garnerin, and Ivan Kotliarevsky. Among people deceased in 1852, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ranks 6. Before him are Ada Lovelace, Nikolai Gogol, Louis Braille, Friedrich Fröbel, and Henry Clay. After him are Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Auguste de Marmont, Johan Gadolin, Augustus Pugin, Marie of Hesse-Kassel, and Ján Kollár.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ranks 21 out of 549. Before him are Edmund Burke (1729), Michael Gambon (1940), Francis Bacon (1909), Eddie Jordan (1948), Sinéad O'Connor (1966), and George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449). After him are William Rowan Hamilton (1805), Pierce Brosnan (1953), Grace O'Malley (1530), J. D. Bernal (1901), W. B. Yeats (1865), and G. E. M. Anscombe (1919).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ranks 3. Before him are Edmund Burke (1729), and George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449). After him are Michael D. Higgins (1941), Bertie Ahern (1951), Harald Gille (1103), John Boland (1870), Causantín mac Cináeda (836), Michael Collins (1890), Brian Cowen (1960), Mary Robinson (1944), and Malcolm II of Scotland (954).

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