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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

1850 - 1942

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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 1850 – 16 January 1942) was the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He served as Governor General of Canada, the tenth since Canadian Confederation and the only British prince to do so. Arthur was educated by private tutors before entering the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich at 16 years old. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the British Army, where he served for some 40 years, seeing service in various parts of the British Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn is the 3,462nd most popular politician (down from 2,964th in 2019), the 836th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 632nd in 2019) and the 170th most popular British Politician.

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn is most famous for being the third son of Queen Victoria. He served as Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ranks 3,462 out of 19,576. Before him are Causantín mac Cináeda, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Duke of Zhou, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Pál Teleki, and Louis-Jules Trochu. After him are Fumimaro Konoe, Christopher II of Denmark, Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat, Ebrahim Raisi, Ferdinand II of León, and Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ranks 19. Before him are John Collier, Mihai Eminescu, Pierre Loti, Luigi Cadorna, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, and Oliver Heaviside. After him are Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Frances Xavier Cabrini, William Morris Davis, Lafcadio Hearn, Besarion Jughashvili, and Ignác Goldziher. Among people deceased in 1942, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ranks 31. Before him are Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Carole Lombard, Jozef Gabčík, Chen Duxiu, Yanka Kupala, and Hans-Joachim Marseille. After him are A. E. Waite, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Hector Guimard, Felix Hausdorff, Prince George, Duke of Kent, and Tina Modotti.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ranks 836 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Louis Wain (1860), Ian McEwan (1948), Denis Law (1940), Oliver Heaviside (1850), and Chris Norman (1950). After him are Mary Quant (1930), Brian Cox (1946), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), Eleanor Marx (1855), and Wilkie Collins (1824).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ranks 170. Before him are Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743), Ramsay MacDonald (1866), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), Mackenzie Bowell (1823), Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388), and Asma al-Assad (1975). After him are James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (1415), Eadwig (940), Ælla of Northumbria (800), Princess Muna al-Hussein (1941), and Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872).

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