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Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford

1868 - 1933

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Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford (12 August 1868 – 1 April 1933), styled the Lord Chelmsford until 1921, was a British statesman. He served as Governor of Queensland from 1905 to 1909, Governor of New South Wales from 1909 to 1913, and Viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921, where he was responsible for the creation of the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms. After serving a short time as First Lord of the Admiralty in the government of Ramsay MacDonald, he was appointed the Agent-General for New South Wales by the government of Jack Lang before his retirement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford is the 17,242nd most popular politician (up from 17,468th in 2019), the 5,531st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,784th in 2019) and the 637th most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford ranks 17,242 out of 19,576Before him are José Bono, Shamshi-Adad III, Edmund Andros, Claude Bartolone, Helen Zille, and Richard Grenell. After him are Amit Shah, Jo Jorgensen, John Barrasso, Thomas Norton, Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and Lamar Alexander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford ranks 193Before him are Johannes van Dijk, Spottiswoode Aitken, Anna Missuna, Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, Lida Heymann, and Ellen Roosevelt. After him are Horace Elgin Dodge, Willis R. Whitney, Robert Edeson, Emily Murphy, Maude Abbott, and Mariano Trías. Among people deceased in 1933, Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford ranks 152Before him are Saliamonas Banaitis, Julius Falkenstein, Hjalmar Mellin, August Rodenberg, Ğäliäsğar Kamal, and Alva Belmont. After him are Ormond Stone, Edward Dillon, George Luks, Eddie Lang, and Emily Murphy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford ranks 5,533 out of 8,785Before him are Edmund Andros (1637), W. T. Tutte (1917), Molly Peters (1942), Ben Daniels (1964), Max Hastings (1945), and John Wark (1957). After him are Thomas Lodge (1558), James Thornhill (1675), Vivien Merchant (1929), Adrian Biddle (1952), Anna Neagle (1904), and Carole Shelley (1939).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford ranks 637Before him are Malcolm MacDonald (1901), Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone (1854), John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792), Nigel Lawson (1932), George Lansbury (1859), and Edmund Andros (1637). After him are Thomas Norton (1532), Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi (1971), Tebbs Lloyd Johnson (1900), Nick Clegg (1967), Harry Atkinson (1831), and Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536).