NOBLEMAN

Jane Digby

1807 - 1881

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Jane Elizabeth Digby (3 April 1807 – 11 August 1881) was an English aristocrat, famed for her remarkable love life and lifestyle. She had four husbands and many lovers, including Lord Ellenborough, Governor-General of India, King Ludwig I of Bavaria and his son King Otto of Greece, Bohemian nobleman and Austrian statesman Prince Felix zu Schwarzenberg, and the Greek general Christodoulos Hatzipetros. She died in Damascus, then part of the Ottoman Empire, as the wife of Arab sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab, who was 20 years her junior. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jane Digby is the 1,067th most popular nobleman (down from 825th in 2019), the 2,869th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,105th in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Jane Digby ranks 1,067 out of 1,415. Before her are Bivin of Gorze, Charles III, Count of Alençon, Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Gaucelm Faidit, Frederick II, Duke of Lorraine, and Euphemia of Sweden. After her are Herbert III, Count of Vermandois, Prince Jean of Luxembourg, Amy Robsart, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Catherine Desnitski, and Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Jane Digby ranks 32. Before her are Anna Russell, Adrien-François Servais, Napoléon Henri Reber, Thiệu Trị, Robert Blum, and Joseph Decaisne. After her are Pieter Willem Korthals, Auguste Laurent, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Emily Donelson, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Barbu Catargiu. Among people deceased in 1881, Jane Digby ranks 61. Before her are Konstantin Thon, Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, August Šenoa, Tanaka Hisashige, and Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys. After her are Robert Mallet, Ercole Dembowski, Mary Seacole, Andrei Zhelyabov, Ambrose Burnside, and Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jane Digby ranks 2,870 out of 8,785. Before her are Lindsay Kemp (1938), Dennis Viollet (1933), Arthur Waley (1889), Herbert James Draper (1863), Edward William Lane (1801), and Joely Richardson (1965). After her are Paul Young (1956), Auguste Couder (1789), John Alcock (1892), Nevil Shute (1899), Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621), and Mick Ronson (1946).

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Among NOBLEMEN In United Kingdom

Among noblemen born in United Kingdom, Jane Digby ranks 60. Before her are Eleanor of Woodstock (1318), Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415), Princess Eugenie of York (1990), Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1758), Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873), and Isabella of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany (1426). After her are Amy Robsart (1532), Galyani Vadhana (1923), Eleanor of Scotland (1433), Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924), Lady Sarah Chatto (1964), and Peter Phillips (1977).

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