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Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

1799 - 1869

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Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869), known as Lord Stanley from 1834 to 1851, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served three times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. To date, he is the longest-serving leader of the Conservative Party (1846–68). He is one of only four British prime ministers to have three or more separate periods in office. However, his ministries each lasted less than two years and totalled three years and 280 days. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby is the 6,156th most popular politician (up from 7,232nd in 2019), the 1,386th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,425th in 2019) and the 253rd most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ranks 6,156 out of 19,576. Before him are Didier Ratsiraka, Louis-François de Boufflers, Seleucus VII Philometor, Henry Tingle Wilde, Leopold II, Margrave of Austria, and Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After him are Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Federica Montseny, Vonones II, Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud, and Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ranks 16. Before him are Charles II, Duke of Parma, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, Karl Bryullov, Anna Atkins, Rodolphe Töpffer, and Christian Friedrich Schönbein. After him are John Lindley, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Ferenc Gyulay, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Almeida Garrett, and René Caillié. Among people deceased in 1869, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ranks 17. Before him are Thomas Graham, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, and Giovanni Battista Bugatti. After him are Alexandrine Tinné, Carl Gustav Carus, Carl Loewe, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Carl Reichenbach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ranks 1,386 out of 8,785. Before him are Charlotte Gainsbourg (1971), Jeremy Corbyn (1949), Keira Knightley (1985), Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), Frank Lampard (1948), and Henry Tingle Wilde (1872). After him are Flinders Petrie (1853), Simon Phillips (1957), John Smyth (1570), Smithson Tennant (1761), Geraldine McEwan (1932), and John Lindley (1799).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ranks 253. Before him are Olave Baden-Powell (1889), John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1462), Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774), Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763), Jeremy Corbyn (1949), and Henry Tingle Wilde (1872). After him are Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883), Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (1000), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), Alexander I of Scotland (1078), Catherine Ashton (1956), and John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860).

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