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Leo Amery

1873 - 1955

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Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery (22 November 1873 – 16 September 1955), also known as L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. During his career, he was known for his interest in military preparedness, British India and the British Empire and for his opposition to appeasement. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies (1924–29), opposed the National Government of the 1930s and served as Secretary of State for India during the Second World War (1940–45). He was also a prolific writer whose output included a multi-volume history of the Second Boer War and several volumes of memoirs and (posthumously published) diaries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Amery is the 17,560th most popular politician (down from 17,550th in 2019), the 987th most popular biography from India (down from 962nd in 2019) and the 245th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leo Amery ranks 17,560 out of 19,576. Before him are Abdulla Shahid, Nellie Connally, Tom Ridge, Paramanga Ernest Yonli, Janet Napolitano, and Gary Herbert. After him are Ahmad Massoud, Maria Damanaki, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Françoise Nyssen, Ilya Ponomarev, and Robert F. Wagner.

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Among people born in 1873, Leo Amery ranks 206. Before him are Dorothy Richardson, Robert Wrenn, Ellen Glasgow, Sara Josephine Baker, Alfred Bowerman, and John W. Davis. After him are Louisa Garrett Anderson, Harry Solter, Gauhar Jaan, and Nellie McClung. Among people deceased in 1955, Leo Amery ranks 174. Before him are Alice Joyce, Georges Johin, Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi, Carlyle Blackwell, John McLean, and John W. Davis. After him are Robert Riskin, and Harry Cobby.

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In India

Among people born in India, Leo Amery ranks 987 out of 1,861. Before him are Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (1915), Smita Patil (1955), Prem Nazir (1927), Aparna Sen (1945), Maneka Gandhi (1956), and S. J. Suryah (1968). After him are Amjad Ali Khan (1945), Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi (1920), Mehdi Hassan (1927), Arun Jaitley (1952), Usha Mangeshkar (1935), and Geeta Bali (1930).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Leo Amery ranks 245. Before him are Kanu Sanyal (1928), Bhanu Athaiya (1929), Mridula Sinha (1942), Vasundhara Raje (1953), Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (1915), and Maneka Gandhi (1956). After him are Arun Jaitley (1952), Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910), Varun Gandhi (1980), Margaret Alva (1942), Murli Manohar Joshi (1934), and Shivraj Singh Chouhan (1959).

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