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James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie

1812 - 1860

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James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (22 April 1812 – 19 December 1860), known as the Earl of Dalhousie between 1838 and 1849, was a Scottish statesman and colonial administrator in British India. He served as Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. He established the foundations of the colonial educational system in India by adding mass education in addition to elite higher education. He introduced passenger trains to the railways, the electric telegraph and uniform postage, which he described as the "three great engines of social improvement". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie is the 9,178th most popular politician (down from 6,137th in 2019), the 2,023rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,226th in 2019) and the 326th most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 9,178 out of 19,576. Before him are Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Jiro Taniguchi, Gabriel González Videla, Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Haim Bar-Lev, and Beata Szydło. After him are Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Besse Cooper, Catherine Samba-Panza, and Berthold II, Duke of Carinthia.

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Among people born in 1812, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 34. Before him are Zygmunt Krasiński, Hendrik Conscience, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, Édouard Séguin, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, and Berthold Auerbach. After him are Hermann von Fehling, Filippo Pacini, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Luigi Carlo Farini, George Allman, and William Fox. Among people deceased in 1860, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 26. Before him are Ernst Moritz Arndt, Ferdinand Christian Baur, Ii Naosuke, Aleksey Khomyakov, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, and George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After him are Carl Ritter von Ghega, George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Joseph Cafasso, Élie, duc Decazes, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, and Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 2,023 out of 8,785. Before him are Wallace Hartley (1878), Herbert Pitman (1877), Andrew Parker Bowles (1939), Alexander McQueen (1969), Alfred Fowler (1868), and J. Stuart Blackton (1875). After him are Lindsay Duncan (1950), Don Thompson (1933), W. Ross Ashby (1903), Mark Sykes (1879), John Taverner (1490), and Alkmund of Derby (800).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ranks 326. Before him are Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870), William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738), Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776), Gerry Adams (1948), Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886), and Herbert Pitman (1877). After him are Edward Fortunatus (1565), Jeremy Thorpe (1929), John Hume (1937), Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), William Hamilton (1730), and Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862).

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