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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

1784 - 1865

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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and from 1859 to 1865. A member of the Tory, Whig and Liberal parties, Palmerston was also the first Liberal prime minister. He dominated British foreign policy from 1830 to 1865 when Britain stood at the height of its imperial power. In 1802, Temple succeeded to his father's Irish peerage as the 3rd Viscount Palmerston. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston is the 25th most popular diplomat (down from 23rd in 2019), the 791st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 615th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Diplomat.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, is most famous for his role as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834 and again from 1835 to 1841.

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Among diplomats, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 25 out of 90. Before him are Folke Bernadotte, Jean Kennedy Smith, Chaim Herzog, Chiune Sugihara, Hasekura Tsunenaga, and Viktor Chernomyrdin. After him are George F. Kennan, William J. Burns, Alfonso García Robles, Megasthenes, Thomas Klestil, and Irina Bokova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 9. Before him are Ferdinand VII of Spain, Jérôme Bonaparte, Marie-Antoine Carême, Louis Spohr, Karl Thomas Mozart, and Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Rafael del Riego, Leigh Hunt, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, and Leo von Klenze. Among people deceased in 1865, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 12. Before him are William Rowan Hamilton, Emil Lenz, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Johann Franz Encke, and William Jackson Hooker. After him are Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Robert FitzRoy, Heinrich Barth, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 791 out of 8,785. Before him are Osborne Reynolds (1842), Henry Every (1659), Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743), George Mallory (1886), James Dewar (1842), and William McMaster Murdoch (1873). After him are Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), Peter Greenaway (1942), Saint Malachy (1094), Anthony James Leggett (1938), Chris Slade (1946), and Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861).

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Among DIPLOMATS In United Kingdom

Among diplomats born in United Kingdom, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 2. Before him are Chaim Herzog (1918). After him are Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864), Ernest Mason Satow (1843), and Seán Lester (1888).

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