MILITARY PERSONNEL

Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley

1833 - 1913

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Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (4 June 1833 – 25 March 1913) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army. He became one of the most influential British generals after a series of victories in Canada, West Africa and Egypt, followed by a central role in modernizing the British Army in promoting efficiency. Wolseley is considered to be one of the most prominent and decorated war heroes of the British Empire during the era of New Imperialism. He served in Burma, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, China, Canada and widely throughout Africa—including his Ashanti campaign (1873–1874) and the Nile Expedition against Mahdist Sudan in 1884–85. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley is the 1,700th most popular military personnel (up from 1,785th in 2019), the 204th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 208th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Irish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 1,700 out of 2,058. Before him are Karl Decker, Valentín González, Arnold Meri, Semyon Bogdanov, Dmitry Senyavin, and Gnaeus Servilius Geminus. After him are Pyotr Gavrilov, Karl Allmendinger, Gregor MacGregor, Nozu Michitsura, Prince Frederick of Prussia, and Giovanni Luppis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 64. Before him are John Anderson, Robert G. Ingersoll, Segismundo Moret, Cándido Bareiro, Géza Fejérváry, and Walter Clopton Wingfield. After him are Ludwig von Brenner, Salvador Jovellanos, Baron Karl von Hasenauer, Infanta María Cristina of Spain, Johan Ehrnrooth, and John Houlding. Among people deceased in 1913, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 76. Before him are Walter Rutherford, Johannes Linnankoski, Camille Lemonnier, Segismundo Moret, Juhan Liiv, and Nicolás de Piérola. After him are Adolf Lang, Nazım Pasha, Angelo de Gubernatis, Robert Collett, Paul de Smet de Naeyer, and Leonid Sobolev.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 204 out of 549. Before him are Steve Barron (1956), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911), Colm Tóibín (1955), Stephen Roche (1959), and John Ellis (1710). After him are William Orpen (1878), Paul Kane (1810), Richard Steele (1672), Richard Todd (1919), Brendan Behan (1923), and Mary Proctor (1862).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ireland

Among military personnels born in Ireland, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley ranks 8. Before him are Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883), Richard Montgomery (1738), William Brown (1777), George Browne (1698), John de Robeck (1862), and Alan Cunningham (1887). After him are Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779), and Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864).

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