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Mackenzie Bowell

1823 - 1917

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Sir Mackenzie Bowell (; December 27, 1823 – December 10, 1917) was a Canadian newspaper publisher and politician, who served as the fifth prime minister of Canada, in office from 1894 to 1896. Bowell was born in Rickinghall, Suffolk, England. He and his family moved to Belleville, Upper Canada in 1832. When in his early teens, Bowell was apprenticed to the printing shop of the local newspaper, the Belleville Intelligencer, and some 15 years later, became its owner and proprietor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mackenzie Bowell is the 3,364th most popular politician (up from 16,412th in 2019), the 815th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,855th in 2019) and the 167th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mackenzie Bowell ranks 3,364 out of 19,576. Before him are Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Philip II, Duke of Savoy, Zagan Pasha, Theudebert II, and Alfred Moisiu. After him are Seth-Peribsen, Charles III, Duke of Savoy, Elisiv of Kiev, Charles Felix of Sardinia, Armah, and Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Mackenzie Bowell ranks 18. Before him are Li Hongzhang, Jean-Henri Fabre, John Sherman, John Russell Hind, Charles I of Württemberg, and Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Alexander Ostrovsky, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Jean Chacornac, Mihailo Obrenović, and Théodore de Banville. Among people deceased in 1917, Mackenzie Bowell ranks 19. Before him are Edward Burnett Tylor, Buffalo Bill, Franz Brentano, Dragutin Dimitrijević, John William Waterhouse, and Ludwig Minkus. After him are Scott Joplin, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Radomir Putnik, Frances Xavier Cabrini, Jean Gaston Darboux, and Ranavalona III.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mackenzie Bowell ranks 815 out of 8,785. Before him are Ronald Fisher (1890), Wentworth Miller (1972), Stephen Graham (1973), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), Richard Francis Burton (1821), and Beatrice Webb (1858). After him are Douglas Adams (1952), Thomas Wolsey (1473), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Annie Besant (1847), Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862), and Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Mackenzie Bowell ranks 167. Before him are James II of Scotland (1430), Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (1453), James Callaghan (1912), Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743), Ramsay MacDonald (1866), and Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850). After him are Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388), Asma al-Assad (1975), Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (1415), and Eadwig (940).

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