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Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

1850 - 1916

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Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (; 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his involvement in the Second Boer War, and his central role in the early part of the First World War. Kitchener was credited in 1898 for having won the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan, for which he was made Baron Kitchener of Khartoum. As Chief of Staff (1900–1902) in the Second Boer War he played a key role in Lord Roberts' conquest of the Boer Republics, then succeeded Roberts as commander-in-chief – by which time Boer forces had taken to guerrilla fighting and British forces imprisoned Boer and African civilians in concentration camps. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener is the 3rd most popular engineer (up from 52nd in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 45th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener ranks 3 out of 389. Before him are Gustave Eiffel, and Gottlieb Daimler. After him are Mikhail Kalashnikov, Zhuge Liang, Wernher von Braun, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, William John Macquorn Rankine, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Alexei Kosygin, and Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener ranks 3. Before him are Jack the Ripper, and Guy de Maupassant. After him are Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Edward Smith, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Eduard Bernstein, Hermann Ebbinghaus, and Charles Richet. Among people deceased in 1916, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener ranks 6. Before him are Franz Joseph I of Austria, Grigori Rasputin, Jack London, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and William Ramsay. After him are Ernst Mach, Élie Metchnikoff, Yuan Shikai, Charles Taze Russell, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, and Odilon Redon.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener ranks 9 out of 549. Before him are Richard Harris (1930), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Robert Boyle (1627), Jonathan Swift (1667), Samuel Beckett (1906), and George Berkeley (1685). After him are Mary Harris Jones (1837), John Scotus Eriugena (810), Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), Brigid of Kildare (451), Bram Stoker (1847), and Edmund Burke (1729).

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Among ENGINEERS In Ireland

Among engineers born in Ireland, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener ranks 1. After him are Robert Mallet (1810).

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