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Ruth Belville

1854 - 1943

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Elizabeth Ruth Naomi Belville (5 March 1854 – 7 December 1943), also known as the Greenwich Time Lady, was a businesswoman from London. She, her mother Maria Elizabeth, and her father John Henry, sold people the time. This was done by setting Belville's watch to Greenwich Mean Time, as shown by the Greenwich clock, each day and then "selling" people the time by letting them look at the watch and adjust theirs. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ruth Belville is the 12,300th most popular politician (up from 13,386th in 2019), the 2,846th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,040th in 2019) and the 412th most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, Ruth Belville ranks 12,300 out of 19,576. Before her are Anatolijs Gorbunovs, Richard Röstel, Ulisses Correia e Silva, Ernst Hoppenberg, Antigone of Epirus, and Nicolò Marcello. After her are Deng Sui, Hiempsal I, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, Fritz Platten, Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels, and Akram al-Hawrani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Ruth Belville ranks 75. Before her are Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, Sergei Korsakoff, Heinrich Kreutz, Cornelis Lely, Hermann von Stein, and Petros Protopapadakis. After her are Alexandru Macedonski, Ludwig von Pastor, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Franz Rohr von Denta, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, and Alexandru Marghiloman. Among people deceased in 1943, Ruth Belville ranks 131. Before her are Walther von Hünersdorff, Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, Anita Augspurg, Tōson Shimazaki, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Fats Waller. After her are Aristarkh Lentulov, Curt Haase, W. S. Van Dyke, Elise Richter, Erich Bey, and Franceska Mann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ruth Belville ranks 2,847 out of 8,785. Before her are Bob Anderson (1931), Alan Lee (1947), Maurice Evans (1901), Benjamin Jones (1882), William Cowper (1731), and Christine Keeler (1942). After her are Kevin McNally (1956), Henry Dudeney (1857), Arthur Roche (1950), John Chadwick (1920), Lily Collins (1989), and John McDonnell (1951).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Ruth Belville ranks 412. Before her are Henry Pottinger (1789), Charles James Fox (1749), Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (1886), Ed Davey (1965), Cuthred of Wessex (750), and Bobby Sands (1954). After her are John McDonnell (1951), Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany (1739), Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1301), Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831), Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621), and John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845).

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