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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh

1769 - 1822

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Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822), usually known as Lord Castlereagh, derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh (UK: KAH-səl-ray) by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was an Irish-born British statesman and politician. As secretary to the Viceroy in Ireland, he worked to suppress the Rebellion of 1798 and to secure passage in 1800 of the Irish Act of Union. As the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1812, he was central to the management of the coalition that defeated Napoleon, and was British plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna. In the post-war government of Lord Liverpool, Castlereagh was seen to support harsh measures against agitation for reform, and he ended his life an isolated and unpopular figure. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh is the 9,463rd most popular politician (down from 7,987th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 86th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Irish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 9,463 out of 19,576. Before him are Gaston Eyskens, André Marty, Hussein Onn, Giovanni Dandolo, John III, Duke of Bavaria, and Francisco Sagasti. After him are Enrique Líster, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Zdravko Krivokapić, Georges Theunis, Kirill Razumovski, and Odoardo Farnese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 21. Before him are Thomas Lawrence, Mahmud Shah Durrani, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Aleksey Arakcheyev, and Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After him are Lotf Ali Khan, Nannette Streicher, Carlo Gaetano Gaisruck, Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha, Edward Daniel Clarke, and Marc Isambard Brunel. Among people deceased in 1822, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 21. Before him are Karl August von Hardenberg, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Valentin Haüy, Pierce Butler, Slimane of Morocco, and Bathilde d'Orléans. After him are Dmitry Levitzky, Sophie de Condorcet, Cheung Po Tsai, Platon Zubov, Józef Wybicki, and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 116 out of 549. Before him are Sheamus (1978), Douglas Hyde (1860), Eliza Lynch (1833), Kevin Roche (1922), Neil Jordan (1950), and David Kelly (1929). After him are Charles Maturin (1780), Edmund the Martyr (841), Kevin of Glendalough (498), Fiona Shaw (1958), Ninette de Valois (1898), and Cornelius Ryan (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ranks 22. Before him are Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (1116), Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785), Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715), Pierce Butler (1744), Douglas Hyde (1860), and Eliza Lynch (1833). After him are Edmund the Martyr (841), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), Constantine III of Scotland (971), Arthur Griffith (1871), and Pat Cox (1952).

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